I spend a lot of time trying to find enjoyable TV shows to watch at night after a long tough day at work. Recently Amazon put a new show on Prime so it was free to watch. It is called "Lark Rise to Candleford." It is the story of two small communities in England at the end of the 19th Century. It is a warm and inviting show and a great way to wind down the day without gore and blood stained corpses that are the staple of TV these days.
What struck me about the show was the relevance to todays politics. Lark Rise is a small hamlet of tenant farmers barely living on subsistence wages from working in the fields of the squire. They count their pennies and the slightest error can send them off to the work house losing kith and kin. So they have to bow and scrape and make sure that they do not offend their betters.
The squire Sir Timothy Midwinter is a kind and just man. He seems to have the best interests of the people at heart. At least that is the front he presents. He is imperious and bigoted and knows his own mind. He will tell the peons what to do and how to act and what to think. Think of him as the Republican establishment and the conservative pundits and intelligentsia.
There is a leader among the tenants. Robert Timmins works in the fields but is a talented sculptor. The squire hires him to do restoration work around his estate. He condescends to use him but he still is above him and thinks of him as a hireling who should know his place. Timmins thinks of himself as a man just as good as any other man. Even the Squire. Think of him as the white working class.
This is the situation we are in. The squire can't believe that the citizens of Lark Rise have their own mind. That they object to being replaced by imported workers who will take their jobs and send them to the work house. That they are good Christians who don't want another religion imported to their communities with fanatics who want to impose their values of rape, female circumcision and spousal abuse. The squire is shocked that they refuse to listen to their betters. How dare they! He will impose his will not matter what. An election will not matter. The will of the people is not a consideration. He knows best.
This situation is just untenable. It has to be resolved in one way or another. I am riveted. I will keep watching and let you know how it turns out.
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A hundred years in Mexico, they had a similar situation and kept pushing it.
Companeros of the plow
Tired and staved and dirty
There's but one road to follow no
So grab your .30-.30
If this were any given Egyptian hieroglyphic class, we'd be discussing for two weeks that the scribe intended "now" and not "no."
Ooops
An article I read just now said that Merle Haggard said in an interview that having written 700 songs he cannot think of a subject he hasn't written a song about.
I have an idle project. Find a Merle Haggard song on the subject of
Hang gliding
Terrace container gardening
South Korean choreography kids
pop-up cards and books
how to make crackers
Classification of Egyptian Hieroglyphics
Photographing nearby dinosaur footprints
To name a few off the wall subjects of tremendous interest and see if Merle Haggard wrote a song about any of this. There was a whole world out there for you Merle left unexplored. Silly old man, you thought you wrote about everything possible?
I meant to say just now sorry to hear of his passing and RIP etc, but that other Freudian slip thing came out. Apologies. Something something Okie. Okie dokie?
From Muskogee.
Ya hadda be there.
Hey, that's Mr. Bates.
Mr. Bates gets around.
Mister Bates plays himself
I want more "Peaky Blinders."
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