I have principles...

[SleeplessinSoCal]

8. Caught an interesting look back in time tonight

a 1972 episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. It put my own politics in perspective.

"Mary gets city councilman Pete Peterson to appear on Face the People and discovers that he is completely incompetent. She and his aides try to bring him up to speed on current events so he can make a good impression on the show."

This is before News programs became entertainment or a propaganda outlet. In the episode there was the councilman's idea that in order to make a good impression they tidy up the slums before the person who gives out loans to tidy them up saw them. Also the suggestion that when you talk about "garbage removal" you talk about "ecology". It was a mind bending look back at what a sensible place we once lived in, even when idiots were elected.

Also, in 1972 we had an ominous and huge enemy outside our borders - The Soviet Union - with guided nuclear missiles and all. And this was 7 years before the Islamic revolution of 1979.

A little time capsule of a sitcom that made me want to cry.