Inherit the Wind

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by woot

re-hijack!

Did anyone else have to watch driver-safety videos at zone conference? There's nothing like seeing someone describe in gory detail his companion dying in his arms after running a stop sign to prepare for spiritual edification. When I got to the office I refused to allow any of them to be shown.

Driving in my mission (Italy) was like a video game, but you only had one life. All that time spent puring quarters into the Pole Position video game really paid off for me.

[woot]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

No, but nice "I worked in the office" bomb, Mr travel secretary.

*rimshot*

PS How many people did you baptize?

At one point I looked to see who had baptized the most people in the whole mission, and factoring out the foreign-language guys, every one of the top 10 were worthless idiots that required baby sitting, and who were therefore always put with the best missionaries.

But to answer your question, I was well above average. My only consolation is that they probably all stopped going to church before I did.

But seriously, some of those safety videos were horrific.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by 8ballrollin

This is not meant as a smart-ass comment, but didn't you have to watch this in HS? I remember watching it in like 10th grade English. We didn't watch the film for the creationism/evolution debate, but as a discussion on allegory – the movie/play having something to do with McCarthyism (I think). Maybe this was just a commie-California public education thing.

This also brings up another book I had to read in HS – The Jungle. The in-class discussions were all about muckraking, the plight of immigrants, unions and the creation of the FDA, etc. Sinclair was hailed as the great muckraker. Then I do some out-of-class research and find Sinclair never cared about creating safe foods for consumers – he wanted his novel to be an indictment of capitalism and marketplace. He later ran for congress and governor of CA as socialist.

Sorry, I digress...The reason I was bringing up The Jungle is because Inherit seems to be about creationism/evolution, but was intended to be a criticism of anti-communism.

No, I did not see it in HS. My HS was pretty boring.

[Goatnapper'96]

Originally Posted by 8ballrollin

This is not meant as a smart-ass comment, but didn't you have to watch this in HS? I remember watching it in like 10th grade English. We didn't watch the film for the creationism/evolution debate, but as a discussion on allegory – the movie/play having something to do with McCarthyism (I think). Maybe this was just a commie-California public education thing.

This also brings up another book I had to read in HS – The Jungle. The in-class discussions were all about muckraking, the plight of immigrants, unions and the creation of the FDA, etc. Sinclair was hailed as the great muckraker. Then I do some out-of-class research and find Sinclair never cared about creating safe foods for consumers – he wanted his novel to be an indictment of capitalism and marketplace. He later ran for congress and governor of CA as socialist.

Sorry, I digress...The reason I was bringing up The Jungle is because Inherit seems to be about creationism/evolution, but was intended to be a criticism of anti-communism.

I am a product of the California public education system and Inherit the Wind was treated as "creationism/evolution" and "academic freedom." In fact, IIRC the teacher had a few of us read a different historical book on the event and report on it for extra credit. So it was purely along the lines what you speak and never was anti-communism/McCarthyism mentioned. I do remember McCarthy was the source and purpose of the "7 Sovereigns for Sister Sara" about the Salem Witch Trials. The Jungle was treated as an indictment on the lack of governmental regulation so that was certainly commie propaganda.

However, I was in school in California in the 80's when it was cool to be conservative and my hometown was a bastion of conservativism. The Ronald Reagan Library is in Simi Valley.