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robdverity 10/01/2009 04:02 PM Report
REMant - Try the mute button. Works great for commercials as well. And get a size larger set of underwear.
robdverity 10/01/2009 03:58 PM Report
A great series. Fearsome to think of what the rapacious plutocrats would have done with free reign to develop right up to the rim of the Grand Canyon, cable cars, ravaged forests, desertification, yadda, yadda. The financial plutocrats just ravaged the world population for a buck, nature wouldn't stand a chance.
Rockefeller redeemed their ilk somewhat by purchasing various acreages for park use. He done good - as well as Ken Burns.
Paulp_Nonfiction 10/01/2009 01:03 PM Report
Dear Mr. Rose:
'Enjoyed last night's show very much, Sir.
Mr. Burns has produced a great documentary on the topic of American Public Parks. He was successful in conveying the great danger that Public Parks reserve to mankind as he so accurately depicted when John Muir fell in love with Yosemite's enchanting lanscape, the "poor" guy was so awestruck that he literally got lost and couldn't be found for days. So public, beware! Mankind must respect Nature, or else...
Kidding aside, Mr. Burns' documentary was successful in demonstrating the Beauty, Majesty and Sublimity of the Parks that must be preserved at all costs!
'Also enjoyed your interview with Audrey & Anne including Mr. Volker's.
Thank you very much, Mr. Rose (and to all the members of your team), for a great show!
Sincerely,
Paulp Non-fiction
REMant 10/01/2009 12:35 PM Report
inlimbo, the link goes to a WMV (Windows Media video) file located at another address. You need to have an associated program to play it, and you need to tell your browser to play it with that program, or with that program in the browser window, and also be sure that the browser is not suppressing it as a pop-up. But it does work.
REMant 10/01/2009 12:28 PM Report
I don't watch Ken Burns' stuff anymore. Altho I wouldn't mind seeing the pictures, the accompanying dialogue is just too much to take. As with the series on the Civil War, jazz and WWII, it appears the history in this one is both inadequate and ideological. That so many ppl watch these and other such dumbed-down and tendentious fare masquerading as education is to me extremely depressing. Now about land ownership. First of all at the founding, and subsequently, as parts of the continent were acquired, the land that was not privately owned or owned by the 13 original states was owned by the federal govt and called not inappropriately, public lands. Much of it was sold to get it settled and to fund such things as the land grant colleges, but some was set aside, a portion of that to be used as parks, and since then some particular property was purchased. Since this country and its states are republics it follows that the park land is open to citizens, and other public lands are allowed to be used by private entities in a time-honored fashion. The same was true in European countries, except that those countries being for the most part feudal, the ownership was by the king or highest ranking noble and let to the lesser nobles in return for service (as Littleton wrote in England it is "a maine maxime of law, that there is no land that is not holden by some service spirituall or temporall"), but the results are the same, and all included common lands farmed or grazed by the common people, the propriety of which could not be transferred except through descent. Enclosure in England was designed primarily to preserve game in the face of increased cultivation, or later to provide pasturage for raising sheep for the export trade in wool, and still later to improve agriculture, all of which were sensible economically. Privatization really occurred only as the economy itself was privatized, and a lot of that as a result of the collapse of feudalism brought on by overspending on foreign wars and the consequent inflation. Any individual "rights" we enjoy is the result of this process, NOT vice versa. There are, nevertheless, still a lot of common or public lands in all the European countries, as well as in this one. I can hardly wait to find out what kind of hash he makes of the history of temperance, or of the war in Vietnam.