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In 1984, Jon Anderson got with Giorgio Moroder and created this little tune for the the movie Metropolis...... Lyrics below.
Cage of freedom
That's our prison
Where the jailer and captive combine
Cage of freedom
Cast in power
All the trappings of our own design
Blind ambition
Steals our reason
We're soon behind those invisible bars
Song text taken from stlyrics.com
On the inside
Looking outside
To make it safer we double the guard
Cage of freedom
There's no escaping
We fabricated a world of our own....
Cage of freedom, growing smaller
'Til every wall now touches the skin
Cage of freedom, filled with treason
Changing sides as the losses begin
Our suspicion tries escaping
But they step up the security
There's no exit--there's no entrance
Remember how we swallowed the key?
Cage of freedom, that's our prison
We fabricated this world on our own....
Big brother
Is there a bigger one watching you
Or is there one smaller
Who I should be watching too
Infinite circles of
Snakes eating their own tails
For every one chasing
Another is on the trail
Is that a friend
Can you tell, is he on your side?
'Cause I spy with my little eye
Yet another spy... (fadeout)
Of all the races of the universe the Squats have the longest memories and the shortest tempers. They are uncouth, unpredictably violent, and frequently drunk. Overall, I'm glad they're on our side!
Office of Naval Intelligence Research discovers 3 out of 4 sailors make up 75% of U.S. Navy.
"Madness is like gravity... All you need is a little push."
You know, I'm not comfortable with much of the fear over violent video games, or how paedophilia is used to justify a crackdown on porn as a whole, and think many of the efforts to resist that stuff is admirable.
But I don't think any part of that conversation is helped by references to totalitarianism. That word has a meaning, and it can be used to described real places in the world today that are suffering a lot more than people that can't play a particular video game.
“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
Look at the pseudo scientists who claim that playing violent video games makes you want to kill and rape people. Or the people who want to ban all video games and try to prevent video game sales to teenagers
I played mario and sonic as a kid. Both very violent. Now I want to take LSD, speed and jump on people while running around naked except for a pair of red sneakers/trainers and while painted blue and fulfilling my wife's kidnap fantasies...
Outside of blatant idiots like Jack Thompson, most of the respectable studies say that it desensitizes people to violence, not necessarily forces them to rape and kill. There is a difference between having people not caring about the effects of violence and getting them to shoot people.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
samusaran253 wrote:True pedophiles would never harm a child. There's nothing wrong with necrophilia or pedophilia or any other fetish. It's only wrong when there is a victim (i.e. a child gets raped or a corpse gets fethed).
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,