Monday, July 25, 2016

Twas Ever Thus for Humanity's Greater Good

I love radio, especially talk radio!  Stories and talks, or information that gets me interacting with it, the mythical radio spirit!  It’s a personal passion and great learning tool.  So a current great gift with my new plug in Prius is its Serius radio.  

A twirl of the radio knob there it is! A whole channel for old radio dramas. Today’s show is from 1948, a short episode with Batman and Robin in a jail cell because of an evil Mr. Jones.   Good old Clark Kent, Superman’s cover, was in the neighbourhood at Planet Radio.  Knowing his friends were in trouble, his station sent out an SOS.

Technology at the helm, they had found a threatening call by the illustrious Mr. Jones, duplicated it and aired it widely.   A $10,000.00 reward was offered for anyone who could identify his voice.  Lo and behold a senior gentleman showed up at Planet Radio.  Before he would talk he wanted to actually hold the money.  Only then, he revealed that he knew it as the voice of a “rabble rouser”, a big mouth who couldn’t tolerate foreigners and was asking for money from anyone for his cause - to stop the bleeding of US funds to poverty stricken Europe.  Chuckling, my mind fast forwarded to a certain Presidential hopeful of dubious character.   “Rabble rousing” they said was always done by selfish narcissists…are those two nouns redundant?  

Personally I am often relieved at the growing number of rabble rousing or awakening voices throughout the US and other countries, hollering about the rabid destruction of our middle class, beloved mother earth and quality of life for many on our planet.


Again I chuckled.  The themes we experience these days are the same.  Streaks of humanity, protecting its status against change.   Batman and Robin were saved in collaboration with Superman, and they all melted the walls round their stardom for humanity’s greater good!

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