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Posted on 08/05/2015 6:29:55 PM PDT by Reverend Saltine
...yes...yes...you are great...i am great...together we are great....
I do not fully understand, one named Kirk. But the holy words will be obeyed. I swear it.
I thought it was “I pledge allegiance”
and so, it was good....
nope nope, i checked it all different ways, and Kirk even says it while showing the words WE THE PEOPLE
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One of the all time worst wigs.
I always liked Cloud William. Chief. Also son of chief.
I don’t know that one.
I thought that at first too. I think earlier in the episode one of the Yangs recites the Pledge and Kirk ungarbled it in a moment of realization.
Nice try, but I still support Trump.
(couldn’t resist)
The wig is on the ‘village elder.’
Cloud William is the chief of the Yangs (Yankees) in this episode ‘The Omega Glory.’
Ah. OK.
The original Star Trek series occasionally went, more or less boldly, into politics--perhaps most notably in the “The Omega Glory” episode which first aired on March 1, 1968. In this episode, Kirk finds himself on a strange planet caught in the middle of a war between a tribe of Asiatic village dwellers called the “Khoms,” and a group of wild nomads called the “Yangs.” (“Yankees” and “Communists,” get it). The Yangs are mostly barbarians, but they do evidence a (surprisingly familiar) past culture in their use of talismanic “worship words” such as “Freedom,” “Liberty,” and “Justice for All.”
The greatest of all Yang worship words—known as the "E plebnista"—can only be spoken by a chief. In the dramatic climax (which does not explain why the Yangs speak English and carry around American flags), Kirk resolves the great conflict by recognizing that E plebnista is actually a corruption of “We the People” and giving the Yangs a good dose of high school civics.
YouTube: Captain Kirk Preamble Gene Roddenberry’s here point is worth remembering: when the Constitution is made the subject of adoration, and when its key passages are converted into acontextualized proof texts, we end up with a ridiculous form of ancestor worship instead of a participatory democracy. We ignore the flesh-and-blood Founders by converting them into two-dimensional deities and their ideas about self-government into a prescriptive list of commandments. “We the people” becomes “E plebnista.”
For me, a sign that somebody has gone well down the E plebnista road to is the tendency to talk about the government as a “them” and the American people as an “us.” This is common on both sides of the political spectrum these days, depending on whose ox happens to be getting gored.
If we can learn only one single lesson from the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the lives of the Founding Fathers, it is that the government is an “us” not a “them.” But since we don’t always agree with each other, the “us” that is the government will sometimes act in ways we, as individuals, do not support. That’s how participatory democracy works in a large republic. When we insist on speaking of the government as something other than ourselves, we invalidate the right of people who disagree with us to take part in the democratic process.
We miss the point badly when we try to guess what Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton would have thought about the individual mandate or the top capital gains tax rate. That is “E plabnista” thinking, or lookin to the Constitution as a religious text designed to provide us with a list of commandments to run our lives by. But the whole point of “We the people” is that we are, well, the people. The Framers gave us a process that we can use to create the kind of society that we want to live in; they never meant to give us “worship words” to keep in a box.
extremely well written but i disagree
this a representative democrasy, not a participatory democrasy
the government has been-—and will always be-— a THEM, and the people are WE
the reason currently is that the entire system has been ravaged and destroyed and no longer works as intended
How?
by men
it’s always the same me
all thriough recorded history; nothing at all changes
you can look it up
the experiment is definitely over
once the senators were taken out of the state’s hands, it essentially ended. that, and the money from the god-cursed “mega donors” who now control the Country
i could go on but i actually am not in the mood
i support trump, so i don;t know why you said that
but Trump can’t save the country or the world
it’s over already and cannot be reversed or stopped
LOL...sure you can...as long as it is in the script.
“Gene Roddenberry’s here point is worth remembering: when the Constitution is made the subject of adoration, and when its key passages are converted into acontextualized proof texts, we end up with a ridiculous form of ancestor worship instead of a participatory democracy.”
Unless I see a direct quote from gene I’m not buying that....The point I got was that the khoms had viturally wiped out the yangs with the help of a star fleet officer gone rogue....but in the end...the Yangs cound not be defeated because of their beserker approach to battle for their most sacred idea...”liberty”.
But yes the episode was campy as hell.
Yeah, but she gets weird around cats.
Yeah, but she gets weird around cats.
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