Movie Review: Dark Victory (1939)

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Brian Wright

Original chick flick still tugs at the heart ___ 8/10

Judith: I’ve never taken orders from anyone. As long as I live, I’ll never take orders from anyone. I’m young and strong and nothing can touch me.

[Colleague: Are you quitting because you’ve lost your nerve?]
Dr. Frederick Steele: I’m not quitting, I’m returning to medicine, have a little lab up north in Vermont.
[Colleague: How many men would give their eye teeth for a practice you’re throwing away? What is this research?]
Dr. Steele: Cells. Brain cells. Why do healthy normal cells go berserk and grow wild, do you know? Nobody knows! But they call them cysts and lyomas and tumors and cancers, and we operate and hope to cure with an eyeful but half the time we don’t even know the root cause. Our patients have faith in us because we’re doctors… I’m done. Continue reading →

Guest Column: The Individual vs. the Collective

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Brian Wright

The Matrix in our time: the state as video family
by Jon Rappoport (from Nomorefakenews.com)

In the 1950s, before television had numbed minds and turned them into jelly, there was a growing sense of: the Individual versus the Corporate State.

Something needed to be done. People were fitting into slots. They were surrendering their lives in increasing numbers. They were carving away their own idiosyncrasies and their independent ideas.

Collectivism wasn’t merely a Soviet paradigm. It was spreading like a fungus at every level of American life. It might fly a political banner here and there, but on the whole it was a social phenomenon and nightmare. Continue reading →