An editorial on dress and hats and such

[rockyj]

Thanks for sharing!

I found the artical insightful.

 

[MikeBravo]

It's Perry Mason, an old-time TV lawyer.

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Thanks for explaining that

I was wondering why the hell Raymond Burr was there :eusa_doh:

Thought it may be something to do with him actually being gay although married for many years. Never mind!

 

[patrick1987]

Like many married people. Like many gay people. What's your point?

 

[MikeBravo]

Like many married people. Like many gay people. What's your point?

One of the points raised in this thread was about how people put on an outer appearance for numerous reasons e.g Ralph Nader wearing a suit to communicate with Congress and Lenin wearing a nice respectable suit yet being responsible for tens of millions of deaths.

In his life Raymond Burr felt obliged to take on the garb of marriage i.e. an outer show of being straight, when in fact he was gay.

And no matter how much society has changed in its tolerence of diversity, there are still people who feel obliged to do the same thing and not be true to their true selves.


I now realise it was the persona of Perry Mason being presented - I read too much into it

 

[patrick1987]

Ah. Very apropos. Thanks for clarifying. (I now realize my question came off as sounding a little rude, though, and I apologize.) Just goes to show you can't judge a book by looking at its cover diddy-wah.

 

[MikeBravo]

No worries

I always assume good will

 

[mikepara]

Lenin wearing a nice respectable suit yet being responsible for tens of millions of deaths.

Some mistake! That was Stalin not Lenin.

Lenin as ringleader to the revolution is guily as the revolution was not bloodless. Stalin however was just a despot.

 

[MikeBravo]

ain't Communism great

Lenin was actually responsible for millions of deaths too

Have a look at Wikipedia: "The same source emphasizes that in 1920, Lenin ordered increased emphasis on the food requisitioning from the peasantry, at the same time as the Cheka gave detailed reports about the large scale famine. The long war and a drought in 1921 also contributed to the famine. Estimates on the deaths from this famine are between 3 and 10 million"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin

 

[Senator Jack]

I don't think you can blame 'Communism' for deaths, rather you have to blame the madmen who happened to be communists. By the way, I'm not a communist. Socialist, perhaps, or even an anarchist, but not a communist.

Regards,

Senator Jack: A Quinn Martin Production

 

[MikeBravo]

I don't think you can blame 'Communism' for deaths, rather you have to blame the madmen who happened to be communists. By the way, I'm not a communist. Socialist, perhaps, or even an anarchist, but not a communist.

Regards,

Senator Jack: A Quinn Martin Production

You make a good point. Some of the practitioners of Capitalism (another economic system) have been pretty ruthless