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Wisdom from 1967

Posted by $ blarman 8 months ago to Culture
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I wasn't around when this originally aired, but it's powerful and came on one of the most popular shows of the time. Shows that Americans used to know what truth was.
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    Posted by mhubb 8 months ago
    i have been watching Dragnet again
    the Wisdom of Jack Webb is Breathtaking
    and Sorley Missed

    one basic issue today is that people have way too much free time
    100 years ago just finding food was a problem that took time
    today, people think they should be entertained all the time and have zero idea how to do it now without they phone
    think what will happen it there IS a massive solar flare....
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      Posted by $ allosaur 8 months ago
      Stores and then homes would be stormed by countless people who think the world owes them anything and everything and don't forget those 10 million or more illegals who traitors allowed to invade our country.
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    • Posted by JakeOrilley 8 months ago
      Yeah - remember gleaning a field after school - after the combine went through (with the permission of the owner) to get enough corn to take to the elevator to get cash for food.

      Entertainment? That was watching the town fireworks on the 4th......
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  • Posted by Ben_C 8 months ago
    Classic. Too bad Biden can't remember the show otherwise he might say "OK guys, give me a break." No breaks for you Biden. You are the problem, not the solution.
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  • Posted by $ splumb 8 months ago
    Webb talks about instant food, instant communication, and instant transportation.

    We now have a whole generation of kids glued to devices, who probably don't even notice when Spring arrives.

    This is even more relevant today than it was in 1967.
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  • Posted by NealS 8 months ago
    Memories, I was on my way to Vietnam when dragnet started, but years later it was a staple in our home. Looking at it today, it was a total indoctrination, not much different than TV is today, but al lease it was all in the direction of good and humanity, unlike today. Love it, will dig out some more and rewatch them. Thanks....

    Remember when the westerns were on TV, the big gun fights, but no one ever died? At least not until the movies came out.
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    • Posted by $ pixelate 8 months ago
      Propaganda does not have to be in the negative... it can be a device employed to keep folks walking on the straight and narrow, keeping to the high ground, staying out of trouble. I was born in 1965... my folks never smoked the nonsense of the hippies and were a cornerstone of integrity .. still alive today and none the dimmer. I still enjoy a few episodes of Gunsmoke when I visit my parents. Simpler times, simpler formulas and they just worked. Oh well, just me rambling a bit :)
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    • Posted by $ gharkness 8 months ago
      Funny, nope I don't remember those. Why? Because my mother would not allow me to watch "Westerns" and "shoot-em-ups." She wasn't all that wild about Dragnet either, so I saw a little bit of Dragnet but mostly on rerun when she wasn't watching.
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      • Posted by NealS 8 months ago
        I always thought Dragnet shaped lives, sorry you missed most of it. The Westerns I'm referring to were, if I can only remember, like The Rifleman (late 50's), Lucas McCain teaching his son Mark (Johnny Crawford) the rules of morality and life. Another indoctrination from Hollywood.
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        • Posted by $ gharkness 8 months ago
          Oh I fully realize that the Westerns were JUST FINE. Network censors weren't about to let anything questionable get by. But....we're talking about MY MOTHER :-) She came from an upper-crust family and had difficulty understanding at times that "ordinary people" stuff was just fine. In fact, WE did not live on the "upper crust." By the time I came along, we were 7 people in a one-bathroom house, hahahah!
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      • Posted by JakeOrilley 8 months ago
        We did not have TV until I was a Junior in HS ('73) but used to watch "Get Smart" at the pastors house when my brother and I would go over and fold the bulletins for Sunday mass......
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        • Posted by $ gharkness 8 months ago
          Well, now THAT brings up a memory. In the summer of 1966 I spent a few days in NYC before a six week trip to France to study there. As part of our sight-seeing we got tickets to be in the audience for some TV game show that was being taped. They had celebrities come and play the game, whatever it was, with "ordinary people." Everyone in my group was so thrilled to find that the celebs of the day were Don Adams and Barbara Feldon. I was like "who ARE these people?" Never watched that show in my life. In fact, other than the original Star Trek and Mission Impossible (also original) I pretty much never watched anything.

          To this day, I haven't found a TV show of any caliber that beats my interest in reading. Give me a book and a TV and guess which one gets ignored.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 8 months ago
    Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!! I thought you were older than me Blar-buddy. You is not!

    Love these old shows. Catch them on Pluto TV
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    • Posted by $ 8 months ago
      Nope. I'm a child of the 80's. Grew up on G.I. Joe, Transformers, and He-Man after school. High bangs and jelly bracelets, big stereos and break dancing.
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      • Posted by GaryL 8 months ago
        You missed the Golden Age of big stereos by a few years. Not much from the 80s can compete with the stereo wars of the 70s when all the big companies were outdoing each other with bigger and more powerful amps and receivers. I bought my stuff while serving during Vietnam and it still works perfect and will blow most stuff made today away. Dragnet was a staple in our home along with the Ed Sullivan show and the Wonderful World of color by the original Walt Disney.
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        • Posted by Tavolino 8 months ago
          You nailed it with the stereo wars. A portion of my student loan in 1971 went to a Crown DC 300 amp ($700), SAE preamp, prior to their sale and handmade to military grade specs ($685), Thorens TD125 with Shure SME ($900) and Bose 901 ($6-700), and it cranked. I just gave all to my son who set up a vinyl room and still sounds fabulous. Great memories with great sound. Thanks for the memory.
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  • Posted by AmericanWoman 8 months ago
    OH MY GOSH....I remember this too...Dragnet...those were the days! and the year of my High School Graduation!
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    • Posted by $ gharkness 8 months ago
      My HS graduation too! I lived in a small-to-medium sized town in far East Texas. We did (edit: NOT) have kids that looked like or acted like those two. Not that we were a whole lot better than anyone else - we weren't - but we were isolated enough (meaning: far enough from Dallas) that our local teachers had more influence over us than just about anything else, except for our parents.

      Went to my 50 year reunion, and two of our teachers (both on their feet and looking 25 years younger) were there. Six years later...they're still in great shape! It was a shock to realize just how young they must have been in 1967 - and we thought they were old back then! (Sorry I kind of got off topic :-) )
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      • Posted by AmericanWoman 8 months ago
        No...enjoyed the memories and a few of mine too...lived in a place in small town in MD yes MD...now its overcrowded parents are gone but during those days my high school in Pasadena was the first county school with a/c, no windows, no upper class so we moved to be the first graduation class. We had friends of color never talked about the difference we grew up together and to hear the yell of my name walking into reunions was incredible we all did the same. Funny the people who were the cool kids all were overweight and strangely dressed...a friend of mine in her wedding to a wonderful man...now watching over her said and it still resonates ever so often....Well...from what I can see you two are the best preserved....teachers were half and half hippies but times were good then life was fun for the most part really. Thanks for the memories!
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  • Posted by $ Stormi 8 months ago
    That is so good, and so what kids in school should be hearing, not this Schools of Education doublespeak! Maybe that is why we appreciate the USA, this is what we watched. Another great one was "Blue Boy" as Friday told boy the bad side of drugs. Anohter was "Route 66" eps. Bircage on MY Goot, the best anti drug episode ever! Young Richard Dreyhuss. At age 6, I had a giant teddy bear, named Joe Friday! Now it is all Taylore Swift who knows nothing about anything! Sad.
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  • Posted by NealS 8 months ago
    The other night watching "Suits" on Netflix, Lewis Litt, played by Rick Hoffman, sounded just like Jack Webb, except a little slower, but even faster when he got mad. That's the only person I've ever heard that sounds like Sgt. Joe Friday. Interesting I just found this: “The story you are about to see is true, the names have been changed to protect the innocent.” DRAGNET (1951-2004) Fabulous. I thought it started when I was just a kid, makes sense now. How quickly we forget.
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  • Posted by katrinam41 8 months ago
    I was a high-school freshman and our family always watched Dragnet. That speech was fantastic then, and means so much more now. It's a shame that kids nowadays wouldn't understand it, even with the line by line laying out of the idea. They have nothing to relate to. We have just one combined task. Return the young minds to sanity and show them what this country means. Under today's conditions, that seems nearly impossible.
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  • Posted by BCRinFremont 8 months ago
    Bam da bump bump!!! It was a rare episode when either Jack or Harry broke a smile. I remember Harry’s character puking one time at some atrocity or another. A great show.
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  • Posted by $ pixelate 8 months ago
    Now just wait a minute ... I listened and watched this Dragnet bit ...
    Half way through "We took a little boy into central hospital the other day, he was four years old, he weighed eight and a half pounds..."
    Did I hear that correctly?
    How in hell can that be possible?
    So help my mathematical mind, this sounds absolutely impossible.
    I once had a cat that weighed eight and a half pounds . . . I know what eight and a half pounds looks like...
    Looking online, a nourished four year old will weight around 40 pounds...
    A newborn child might weigh eight and a half pounds.
    Or did they mean eight and a half kilograms?
    Or are the writers bad at math?
    Or do the writers know full well what they are putting out into the public airways, they know that it is preposterous, but, blend in some preposterous with the mid-1960's message of the Red White and Blue and if we can slowly dull the populace in terms of their ability to differentiate the preposterous from the moralistic message, then we can feed even larger doses of the preposterous... and if we carefully control the blending, soon we can have them believing any nonsense that we wish to publish while questioning or even discarding objective reality.

    Then at the end, Something about recalling a man that killed six million people and calling it a social improvement.
    Clearly, I mean, Obviously, they must be referring to Joseph Stalin:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_....

    Propaganda -- why? Because it works.
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