This short is similar to F.A. Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom", love the riffs!! Now with the TSA and the Patriot Act we are well on our way to despotism...
8:29 "Is this because I said 'booger'?" "No, no. 'Booger"s perfectly OK. So is '%&¶♂♠.' What gets my goat, really, is this hogwash that the earth revolves around the sun."
why'd they put a Hindu symbol on a french flag(i know its a swastika and its a Nazi one but i wanted to make a joke).lol i thought it said are their any Hebrews in your pants
@daken000 The swastika (or the symbol under a different name) actually represented good fortune in numerous cultures, including Native American ones. Undoubtedly that's why the Nazis appropriated it.
Interesting to see how ideas of "what is patriotic" changes over time and according to the country's political and military situation. At 1946 in light of emerging communist oppression in Europe and the revelations of the Holocaust it was easy to say our differences are what makes this country great, conveniently forgetting about oh, say Japanese-American internment camps and the crackdown on perceived anti-Americanism by some newspapers during WWII.
@TVsAdam 1946 was when things began to change...Stalin called America her greatest enemy, Churchill declared that Eastern Europe was behind an "Iron Curtain", along with the "Had Enough?" political campaign that won control of Congress for the Republicans in the off-year elections. These began the movement of the American temperament to the anti-Communist, conformist, Cold War mentality that would result in McCarthyism, blacklisting, and the like.
Those educators...he clearly wasn't Socrates, and even in a democracy you wouldn't want to question THAT schoolmarm.
tomservo56954 2 months ago
"Despotisms are run by shirtless cartoonists"
"Our plucky little friend Despotism might just make it after all"
"Against Democracy State in this year's Despotism Bowl"
"Does your community weigh as much as the Nazis?"
"You can also rate your community to see if it's your ideal lover"
"But it's still likely to do great on the Applause-O-Meter"
tomservo56954 2 months ago
yes, becasue they economic distribution in our democracy is SOOO equal
1990ribs 2 months ago
This short is similar to F.A. Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom", love the riffs!! Now with the TSA and the Patriot Act we are well on our way to despotism...
randy95023 2 months ago
Loving the Fugitive Alien reference you put in there. =D
VincentOroscoe 8 months ago
8:29 "Is this because I said 'booger'?" "No, no. 'Booger"s perfectly OK. So is '%&¶♂♠.' What gets my goat, really, is this hogwash that the earth revolves around the sun."
thefaboloussob 9 months ago
Ah yes, clearly this is the path Obama is sending us down...
Something about those Tea Party views just don't add up...
HParker001 10 months ago
Ironic, according to this america is currently a despot, HOORAY
Zeronightshade14 1 year ago
why'd they put a Hindu symbol on a french flag(i know its a swastika and its a Nazi one but i wanted to make a joke).lol i thought it said are their any Hebrews in your pants
daken000 1 year ago
@daken000 The swastika (or the symbol under a different name) actually represented good fortune in numerous cultures, including Native American ones. Undoubtedly that's why the Nazis appropriated it.
tomservo56954 2 months ago
Bring the world to the classroom, and it'll eat for days. Teach the world's to the classroom-- wait, I'm doing it wrong.
TheGreatYellow 1 year ago
"Unless You're a Negro!"
gimmybackmybrains 2 years ago
Is it just me, or do the illustrations on the scales look like illustrations from the covers of Ayn Rand books?
electrogeek77 2 years ago
My god, don't get me started on the Polyphonic Spree. Too cult-y for my tastes.
And I love, love, LOVE the scene with the Pledge of Allegiance without "under God", since that's how it originally was.
electrogeek77 2 years ago
I laughed at the class by himself quip.
634devil 3 years ago
Monty Python reference FTW.
HackneySack 3 years ago
1. That stereotypical douche boss. I'm going to hyperventilate over this.
2. This narrator tends to drag the ends of his sentenceeessss....
3. 7 minutes in: Is that the woman from Strangers W/ Candy?
4. 8;10 in: Winston is at a hard day at the Ministry of Truth.
MisterSynyster 3 years ago
Despotism, from the makers of Nazism & Scientology!
MisterSynyster 3 years ago 2
This is actually a really daring progressive short. I bet Senator MacCarthy didn't like this one.
gunder01 3 years ago
True; encouraging the questioning of authority and existing ideas isn't exactly what one might expect from 1946 USA.
TVsAdam 3 years ago
Interesting to see how ideas of "what is patriotic" changes over time and according to the country's political and military situation. At 1946 in light of emerging communist oppression in Europe and the revelations of the Holocaust it was easy to say our differences are what makes this country great, conveniently forgetting about oh, say Japanese-American internment camps and the crackdown on perceived anti-Americanism by some newspapers during WWII.
pezdrake 3 years ago 4
@TVsAdam 1946 was when things began to change...Stalin called America her greatest enemy, Churchill declared that Eastern Europe was behind an "Iron Curtain", along with the "Had Enough?" political campaign that won control of Congress for the Republicans in the off-year elections. These began the movement of the American temperament to the anti-Communist, conformist, Cold War mentality that would result in McCarthyism, blacklisting, and the like.
tomservo56954 2 months ago