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The Good Wife and...other things...
Nov. 19th, 2012 08:26 pmCurrently watching the Ken Burns documentary The Dust Bowl which occurred at the same time as the Great Depression. My grandparents lived through it. And my favorite Steinbeck novel, The Grapes of Wrath...which was later made into a film starring John Carrington (the Daddy of Keith and David Carrington), and Henry Fonda. The worst man-made ecological disaster in US history - or what happens when you push too hard against nature. Destroyed the top soil and it blew away.
Hee - wheat production may well have caused the Dust Bowl. I knew wheat was evil!!! Cattle and bison were better for the land than wheat. Well, it wasn't wheat itself, it was how they farmed and plowed it. They over-did it. Plowed day and night. With plows that tore up the soil and ground. And they over planted. It's the classic case of over-kill. Human beings have a tendency to well go to extremes? We binge on things. Or go overboard. Moderation...is not something we do well for some bizarre reason. And we take our resources and what we have granted, expecting it to last forever...never end. But there's no such thing as forever. Forever may be a word, but as a reality it does not exist.
Will state no one does historical documentaries like Ken Burns...his are actually entertaining and informative, as opposed to one or the other. I'm a pick-but when it comes to documentaries. Most bore me or make me roll my eyes. I admit this.
Prior to that watched The Good Wife - which was not that good this week. When it's good, it's really good, when it's bad, well it's still better than half the other tv shows on tv.
( eh spoilers )
Hee - wheat production may well have caused the Dust Bowl. I knew wheat was evil!!! Cattle and bison were better for the land than wheat. Well, it wasn't wheat itself, it was how they farmed and plowed it. They over-did it. Plowed day and night. With plows that tore up the soil and ground. And they over planted. It's the classic case of over-kill. Human beings have a tendency to well go to extremes? We binge on things. Or go overboard. Moderation...is not something we do well for some bizarre reason. And we take our resources and what we have granted, expecting it to last forever...never end. But there's no such thing as forever. Forever may be a word, but as a reality it does not exist.
Will state no one does historical documentaries like Ken Burns...his are actually entertaining and informative, as opposed to one or the other. I'm a pick-but when it comes to documentaries. Most bore me or make me roll my eyes. I admit this.
Prior to that watched The Good Wife - which was not that good this week. When it's good, it's really good, when it's bad, well it's still better than half the other tv shows on tv.
( eh spoilers )