constitutionally speaking: Bloody hell: thank heavens it ain't 1985

Friday, May 04, 2007

Bloody hell: thank heavens it ain't 1985

Watching this extract form an SABC news bulletin of July 1985 chilled me to the bone. Whenever we complain about our democracy, it's good to remember how bad it was in the past. This video sure helps in that regard.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: How indicative of the time is it that the news opens and leads with sports stories... :/; 10:39 pm
Anonymous said...: Plus ça change! Unless, of course, some government minister or another has something 'profound' to say ...; 6:15 pm
Anonymous said...: Plus ça change! Unless, of course, some government minister or another has something 'profound' to say ...; 6:15 pm
Byzantine said...: wow! This was the news in my birth year...

So did New Zealand manage to beat the Boks ?; 10:26 pm

Makes one think, ne?

"We are all perpetually smoothing and rearranging reality to conform to our wishes; we lie to others and to ourselves constantly, unthinkingly. When, occasionally - and not by dint of our own efforts but under the pressure of external events - we are forced to see things as they are, we are like naked people in a storm. There are a few among us - psychoanalysts have encountered them - who are blessed or cursed with a strange imperviousness to the unpleasantness of self-knowledge. Their lies to themselves are so convincing that they are never unmasked. These are the people who never feel in the wrong, who are always able to justify their conduct, and who in the end - human nature being what it is - cause their fallible fellow-men to turn away from them,"

- Janet Malcolm, In the Freud Archives.

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Friday, May 04, 2007

Bloody hell: thank heavens it ain't 1985

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