I was born in the late 70s and was a child when Jimmy Saville was at the height of his fame. I wrote and asked if he could ‘fix it’ for me to take a ride in KITT, the Knight Rider car. Fortunately for me, he was unable to.
My parents were strict about TV. We weren’t allowed to watch the films my friends were watching, and ITV was verboten, but like most of their generation the BBC was allowed. There was no way the BBC would give a primetime slot to a perverted, paedophile, necrophiliac promising to fix it for people, no siree!
The screen which used to reside in the corner of one room, and now never leaves our side, deceived us then as it deceives us now.
“But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence…truth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred” Ludwig Feuerbach
Our friends Anthony and Rob over at Avoiding Babylon recently had a conversation with former Hollywood actor and producer, Bug Hall, who found a radical solution to the deception. A mere child when he got his big break in ‘Little Rascals’ Bug spent the next two decades firmly ensconced in what he describes as ‘sodomitical’ Hollywood.
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