The ongoing adventures of a boy who never grew out of making and playing with plastic model kits (and even some metal ones too). Also a wargamer in search of the perfect set of wargaming rules for WWII Land and 20th Century Naval campaigns.
Monday 6 November 2023
Cold War Era - CNN was prepared for "The End of The World"
Leaked from the archives of CNN and preserved for all to see on You Tube (see link below):
Probably before signing off with 'Nearer My God to Thee', they ought to have someone with sonorous tones reciting T.S. Eliot's 'The Hollow Men'. In symbolic terms, that poem is probably as accurate a forecast as any of the meaninglessly idiotic manner in which the World's self-important 'leaders' and soi-disant 'movers and shakers' seem to be hurling the planet - at least the human race part of it - headlong towards its own dissolution.
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Probably before signing off with 'Nearer My God to Thee', they ought to have someone with sonorous tones reciting T.S. Eliot's 'The Hollow Men'. In symbolic terms, that poem is probably as accurate a forecast as any of the meaninglessly idiotic manner in which the World's self-important 'leaders' and soi-disant 'movers and shakers' seem to be hurling the planet - at least the human race part of it - headlong towards its own dissolution.
Amen Archduke Piccolo, Amen!
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