5: Anger and Forgiveness
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Hi, it's Eric Glass, recording this in 2006. And the show that you're about to listen to, the fifth episode of our show, we actually cannot find a master copy of. And so what you're gonna hear is a copy of somebody's old cassette of this show. And we apologize for the sound quality. We all know what liberalism looked like, back in its heyday, back during the Kennedy administration and the great society. We all can see it. There's President Kennedy on the White House lawn in a sweatshirt playing touch football or taking a pause while playing touch football. He's turning toward the camera, this little film of sweat on his forehead and he's smiling and looking. Just radiating sexual charisma. The heyday of liberalism meant a nation increasingly open about sexuality. You know, there's a time of rising sex on ads and sex on television and increasing sexual frankness in society in general. Now, in our current moment of the Republican Revolution, we're a nation that is increasingly getting in touch with our anger. Anger sells, anger motivates voters, anger's the engine behind a thousand talk radio programs. Two thousand, five thousand, but not this one. Because from WBEZ in Chicago. It's your radio playhouse. I'm Ira Glass. Wasn't every Saturday night live? I got so excited when I did it. I just I you can barely understand the call letters I bet. Just in case you mean they were from WBEZ. That's you know, so management doesn't call me up. That it's important to them. Anyway, tonight on our little radio show, Civilization and its Discontense and the people who are discontent with the Discontense. And if that doesn't make any sense, just just stay with us. Okay, just stay with us. Coming up in our program, stories from Larry Steger, Iris Moore, Cheryl Trick, and more and more and more and more. So anger, anger is an inherent part of the current conservative revolution. It is built into it from the start. It is front loaded.
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