Look, everybody! It's an open thread

OK, so CStS' most recent OT introduced a system of ranking certain flics based on Savios. Specifically, 1 to 5 Savios, instead of stars, teacups or what have you.

Perhaps, even at this late date, some of you might not be familiar with Mario Savio. He was arguably the most profound political theorist of our time because of the brevity and pithiness of his most famous exhortation, which I like to call "Mario's Instruction" or, henceforth "Savio's Instruction".

We all need to listen to it closely, contemplate it and take it to heart. Better yet, we must figure out how to act on it and implement it in today's circumstances. In so doing remember that those who are silent are deemed to have consented.

Here it is, listen to it a few times, savor it and commit it to memory as a key principle of behavior:

OK, got that? Good. another key dictum relates to Boogie Music:

WE MUST MAKE "BOOGIE MUSIC" THE ESSENTIAL FACTOR IN THE LIFE OF ALL.
IN PRESENTING THE SONG TO THE WORLD WE MUST THEN EXPLAIN AND
JUSTIFY OUR POSITION BY FORMULATING A DEFINITION OF "BOOGIE MUSIC" IN SETTING FORTH IT'S MAIN PRINCIPLES IN SUCH A WAY
THAT THEY ALL UNDERSTAND INSTANTLY THAT THEIR SOULS THEIR LIVES
IN EVERY RELATION WITH EVERY OTHER HUMAN BEING IN EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE DEPEND ON "BOOGIE MUSIC" AND THE RIGHT COMPREHENSION AND RIGHT APPLICATION THERE OF - Alan Christie Wilson (The Blind Owl) 1968

OK, so what's on your mind?

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enhydra lutris's picture

critical to understanding what's up and how to deal with it. Open threads simply provide an arena for said communication and need not, in themselves, be all that profound or lengthy.

This spot is available to be somebody's soapbox and/or playground as the case may be - just volunteer, and Thursday can be yours. Woo Hoo!

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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That Savio video is priceless.

I didn't see that anyone posted this Jimmy Dore video yet(I could have missed it.)
It's about FDR and #demexit...

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@Arrow

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

I have been tied up with family most of this week and haven't been around much. Thanks for the OT.

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon