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Sept. 30, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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Imagine What Historians Will Think of This Current American Epoch and How They’ll Howl
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I was actually watching something of interest on the television, on the Vitrola, not the Vitrola, on the Motorola, on the Sylvania.
And it was an HBO series on documentary.
It was actually very good.
On the Iranian Revolution and the Carter years when the Iranian students took over and overtook, redundant, yes, true, the American Embassy and what that was like, the revolution.
It made me think of a number of things.
My God!
That's what a revolution looks like.
Now that's an insurrection.
Now that's sedition.
Now that is, wow!
Kind of pales by comparison to some more contemporary versions of such, but I digress.
I want to talk about this.
What invariably will people of the future think?
Historians, when they look back at this particular epoch, this particular period of time, and how they will hoot and howl and laugh in collective syncopated derision at our lunacy.
And yes, Yes, my friends, I'm wearing dark glasses because it's my new affectation, my new personality.
I've become an old blues harp player down in his luck.
Think Chet Baker, which is a harp, or a bad vice cop from one of those 50s types of shows, that Peter Gunn kind of era.
Or, the truth, I'm still, when I recorded this, still reeling substantially from these heavy-duty drops that my ophthalmologist placed in my eyes when he dilated them.
And everything, I can't read.
I can't read.
I'm walking around, you know, looking rather piteous.
And even the lights...
That surround this contraption are bothersome to me.
So please, this is the last time you'll see them.
Unless I like the look.
Unless I like the affectation.
Or your response.
Vote yes or no.
Should I keep the shades?
What do you think?
Like I care.
Let's get down to business.
Let's really start to think about this.
And by the way, all of you manualists at home, keep practicing.
Makes a great gift and really can break the wind, but also break the ice in a crowded elevator.
But I digress.
I'm an adult with a childish sense of humor.
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All right, my good friend.
As I was saying, Mrs. L and I happen to be perusing.
No, not perusing.
That's reading.
We were watching the various shows and programs.
I keep saying the Victrola.
On the Sylvania.
Did you ever have one of those big TV sets in your living room when you were a kid?
Do you remember when TV sets warmed up?
Do you remember horizontal hold and vertical?
Were you the one assigned from your father?
You were the remote control.
Did you ever do that?
Did you get behind it?
Okay, now.
Okay, that's it.
Okay, that's good.
Good, good.
Okay, hold it.
Or maybe move the rabbit ears or whatever.
Those were the days, weren't they?
I remember when cable came.
Cable!
And in Florida, where I'm from, Florida, not Florida, Florida, we said, well, this is great because we won't have the reception problem we had with antennas, and antennas were always being hit by lightning.
So we got cable, which we couldn't believe.
We're going to spend money for TV?
TV was free!
Oh, now we have paywalls.
How are you?
Anyway, so my friends, as I was watching this, looking at how we were looking back on this period of time, which I remember so, so well.
Oh my God, in the 80s.
Oh God, I remember right after that, I was working for a U.S. Senator.
It was my first real kind of job after, after.
College?
I mean, serious job.
It was something.
And I was watching this revolution.
Four and a half, five million people with guns and knives and placards screaming, going after it, dipping their hands in blood.
It was wild.
I thought, you know, That's a revolution.
That's a revolution.
That is an insurrection.
A sedition.
That.
That's something.
As opposed to this January 6th thing.
Some poor guy walking around looking like Chewbacca wearing a Valkyrie helmet or some water buffalo.
Looks like one of those lodges that Ralph and You know, Cramden or Cramden and Norton, whether we're in, you know, the water buffaloes or this, wearing these sunny bono woolen vests, this, with people saying, come on in!
Remember the security?
The frightened security?
Come on in!
You know, that revolution, that's what I think a revolution is.
Call me wacky, but that's what I think it is.
And anyway, it made me think, what would people think about us today?
What would people think?
What would you, what would be your moment?
Let's say 40 years from now, you get to put together, well, I would be over 100, but you never know.
But you would put together a collection of what we're seeing today.
What would be the thing that you would say?
Here's my moment.
Mine's very simple.
Very simple.
It would be federal judicial nominees, Supreme Court nominees, anybody nominee, up For consideration, for lifetime tenure, being asked the following.
What is the definition of a woman?
Seriously.
Really?
Really.
I'll take it from there.
Where would you go next?
Where?
What would be the thing that you would say, oh, this is good?
Did you ever think that we ever had a president who was a little stunad, a little destarura, a little pacho, a little, as we say in West Tampa, arrebatado, a little deep fried.
Crispy.
What would be your favorite Trump moment, too?
Oh, no, no.
This is your...
Please.
This is your Trump or Jimmy Carter or Dan Quayle with the spelling potato wrong.
Remember when we thought that?
We thought that was...
We were so high.
We were so sophisticated.
We thought it was the worst thing I've ever seen in my life.
What would be your favorite Biden moment?
Shaking hands with Lamont Cranston?
Maybe...
Hey, where is dead legislators?
Anybody see here?
No?
Okay.
Are you being metaphorical?
I mean, do you see her in the hereafter?
Carmelita is saying, you know, we've always had an alliance with North Korea.
Ooh!
North, South.
I could go on and on.
How about certain John Waters horror shows being depicted in school?
How about, I mean, just go through just in the past five years?
Just the moments of presidential eloquence.
What would we show today?
You can even go back to the days of George W. Bush, where he wanted to put food in his family.
Anyway, we can go on and on with that one.
But just ask yourself, think, what would we show the world of the future about our left and right and who we were and what we considered important and what we argued about and what we rioted about?
And the people we elected and I would have as a moment, as my little time capsule, people driving around cars by themselves wearing a mask.
By themselves.
Forget outside.
Forget walking alone in the middle of nowhere in the hot summer sun.
By themselves.
Maybe double mask.
Not even counting those welding masks, but alone in their car.
Not an Uber, not a cab.
Their car.
That, that is the height of insanity that we accepted, that we thought nothing of.
Do you think maybe one day historians will be going through Debris, you know, like remains or ruins, and they'll find still the adhesive strips stand six feet away from each other.
Six feet.
Here's us.
These are six feet apart.
Or the, remember when we would walk down an aisle of a store and thought, if we all walked in one direction, you won't get COVID.
But if you cross each other, if you turn around and go against the traffic, Good times.
What we are seeing, what you are seeing, what we are observing, is the complete and total devolution of humanity as we know it.
That is what history will record.
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