Monday, November 04, 2024

A Short Essay on Voting

On the eve of the 2024 Presidential election, Lewis reads an essay he wrote back in the 90s about his thoughts on voting. It's a right for every person to go an vote, make sure you exercise it. 3 min

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Vote

this country is a mirror to the world we reflect every shade of Flesh and fantasy every hope and dream every faith and tongue every belief and philosophy that is found on this Earth

our country encompasses the entire human spectacle from the beastial to the noble from the Grim to the Grand from the prosaic to the Mythic from The Bleak to the Beautiful from the Forgotten to the remembered

if all of mankind were to dream the same dream this country would be its dream it is this panopoly of existence that gives us our inordinate strength while it creates for us our greatest burden

this is the grandest contradiction of our country one of but a myriad of millions under which we find ourselves now straining

it has made our language seem senseless and our lives feel numb it is why our streets are filled with pain and our skies are choked with smoke

it is why we honor the selfish while casting out the poor it is why we are caught in a nightmare and yet refuse to wake up

but we must every so often each of us in our way has to ask ourselves why we make the choices we choose to make

that's what binds us together as a people that is the joy of our democracy and the greatest form of its celebration is the vote or the opportunity to make that choice and by making that choice we awaken and begin a new our dream

Comments

Lewis Black at his dead serious best.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2024-11-04 05:32 PM

His take on undecided voters is perfect as well.

#2 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-11-04 05:43 PM

Also tonight, Dick Van Dyke just released a short vid called "Voting"... of him reading a Rod Serling speech:

hi I'm uh Dick Van Dyke you may remember
I used to sing and dance and fall down a
lot

actually 50 years ago May 31st
1964 I was on the podium with Dr Martin
Luther King
who was addressing some
60,000 people in the coliseum in La

I was there to read a message written by
Rod turling the guy who wrote Twilight
Zone

I got it out the the other day and
I think it it means as much today if not
more than it did then

so if you don't
mind I'd like to read it

"hatred is not
the norm Prejudice is not the norm
suspicion dislike jealousy
scapegoating

none of those are the
Transcendent facet of the human
personality

they're diseases they are the cancers of the
Soul they are the Infectious and
contagious viruses that have been
bleeding Humanity for
years

and because they have been and
because they are... is it necessary that
they shall be?

I think not
if there's one voice left to say
welcome to stranger if there's but one
hand outstretched to say enter and
share if there's one mind remaining to
think of thought of warmth and
friendship then there's a future in
which we'll find more than one hand more
than one voice and more than one mind
dedicated to the cause of man's
equality

Wishful hopeful unassured
problematical and not to be guaranteed
that's all
true

but again on this spring evening of
1964 a little of man's awareness has
shown itself a little of his essential
decency

his basic goodness his
preeminent dignity has been made a
matter of record

there'll be moments of
violence and expressions of hatred and
ugly echo of
intolerance

but these are the clinging
visages of a Decayed past not the harbinges
of a better cleaner
future

to those who tell us the
inequality of the human animal is
unnecessary evil we must respond by
simply saying that first it is evil but
not necessary

we prove it sitting here
tonight in
1964

we prove it by affirming our faith
we prove it by having faith in our
affirmations

horest man said be ashamed
to die unless you win some victory for
Humanity

I'd like to paraphrase that
tonight
let's be ashamed to live without
that
Victory

DvanD = 1964 A lot's happened not so much as
Martin Luther dreamed of but a start
thank you God bless

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2024-11-04 07:40 PM

link to #3

www.youtube.com

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2024-11-04 07:41 PM

Rod Serling Was Prophetic With This Warning

www.youtube.com

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2024-11-04 07:44 PM

Another prophet warning from 1958

youtu.be

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-11-04 08:13 PM

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