It's not from an adjacent dimension or an alternate timeline.
There was a time within living memory, kids, when intelligent people sat around tables having civilized conversations about interesting subjects. And you could watch it on the teevee!
From 1982, this is Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison, and Gene Wolfe discuss science-fiction writing with Studs Terkel and Calvin Trillin on the Alpha Repertory Television Service (ARTS), the predecessor of today's A&E (Arts and Entertainment Network).
The program was called "Nightcap: Conversations on the Arts and Letters."
Enjoy.
6 comments:
Excellent stuff DG-Love the way they carry on talking as the credits and music rolls. More intelligent debate in 24 minutes than you get on most shows over the course of a day. Now I'm sounding like an old man-Which I am!
To me, this suggests a league of extraordinary Scientists should be formed . To Science the shit out of the GOP mystical evil force that has captured the base.
Apply science instead of political Gurus.
Develop a Manhattan project to create a artificial man made Black hole that can be controlled to engulf MAGA, TEA party, Snake fangs for republicans or whatever else they call themselves .
Thanks for sharing!
L:ies and the lying right wing lies they tell
Believe in small unintrusive government.
Scariest 8 words, I;m from the government and I am here to help, Reagan.
Free trade.
Tax cuts pay for themselves and creates jobs while spurring the economy. But they permanent cut taxes for the wealthy buy temporarily cut taxes for the masses.
If tax cuts do as advertised, why pay any taxes?
Tariffs are not taxes.
Bail outs is socialism except when republicans do them.
Only a republican prosecutor can credibly investigate a republican.
Anti fascist (ANTIFA) is a terrorist group even if your father fought and died fighting fascists in WWII.
Putin is our friend and NATO is our enemy.
Activist partisan judges is really bad.
Affordable health care will kill Grandma. Except when your grandmother died before the ACA became law. América is a Christian nation and founded on Christian principles that no one obeys.
Immigrants are bad for America except the ones the dictator says is okay.
Only certain right wing SCOTUS justices can understand what was meant and the intent of the written Constitution and do not have to explain what was said during the seance with our founding fathers on the subject.
They are not scientists but they know better than scientists that climate change is a hoax.
FOX cable network is news.
These are only a sample.
Samuel Johnson would love Wolf & Asimov. As he stated, "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money."
Also, I loved a lot of Harlan Ellison's writing, but he was a bit precious going into high dudgeon about the "publishers" but he was very much into making money & had the litigation track record to prove it.
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