25 Replies to “Doctor Utopia’s ISM”

  1. This does take me back. Could it be 50yrs ago? In elementary school; we had these ratchety, primitive film projectors and it was a treat the occasional time we’d have a film session. The old “Duck and Cover” type of mild propaganda items were the standard fare. But freedom and liberty were taught in those days, even in Canadian classrooms (as evidenced by this particular cartoon).
    I also notice that it was a source of pride to claim that Americans drove the greatest number of cars, relatively. Now you’re supposed to feel guilty about having succeeded as a culture.

  2. Whoa, 5o years ago?
    Ah freedom, way before the forced PC movement.
    But then they made it mandatory, enacted laws with a feel good PC campaign to make the masses feel good for not ‘having to’ think too much for themselves.
    Now it’s just too easy to make them ‘feel better’ for remaining ignorant and ill informed.
    And the world we have now is the result.
    But bet that this cartoon is banned, if not already.

  3. Do I shed a tear?
    Yes, emphatically yes.
    For I have found of late that “-ism” has once more infiltrated our mindspeak and seeks to establish our current methodologies.
    Freedom comes with consequence but is determined by the acceptance for responsibility.
    The current scenario seems to be leaning toward abhorrence for responsibility and therefore we lose our freedom. For without one, you cannot claim the other.
    We teach our children to depend on the “State” to guide and nurture us and yet we don’t understand why they refuse to make decisions without consensus.
    We reap what we sow.
    Pity your future, you formed it for yourself and have little recourse but to accept your crop.

  6. What does it gain a man to gain the whole world only to lose their soul.
    To government where only animals to be tamed.

  9. Try playing that in any High school today & you would be hung by the teachers.

  10. individual freedom. the most important thing on earth. jefferson “the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots”. freedom is foreign to most. people think that all the rules regs and laws we must follow somehow do not restrict our freedom. people have to get their heads out and look at what we have allowed to happen.

  11. jeff g. that crop can be torn from the ground and destroyed. courage is another thing lacking in todays people.

  12. ‘Pretty simple, isn’t it, to hold a whole people, once free, hostage?
    Socialism loves a vacuum, so when God-fearing, church-going people decided to sleep in or hit the golf links rather than listen to God’s Word which said, among other things, “Without a vision, the people perish,” Mr. Snake Oil Salesman found them ripe for the picking: “No vision, no ism? We’ll give you a few!”
    Today, you’ll find that some of the most vociferous advocates of freedom and the loudest voices against the inroads the state has made into not only the bedrooms of the nation but every room in the house are Christians.
    ‘Little wonder so many of them are being taken to the Human Rights (sic) Commissions. Connect the dots. It’s open season on Christians today at the HRCs and in all of our public places. And the freedom stealers know exactly what they’re doing and why.

  13. Prophetic, indeed.
    Amazing coincidence that the “Doctor Utopia” character looks a lot like the Obamassiah of 50 years later.

  14. Prophetic, indeed.
    Amazing coincidence that the “Doctor Utopia” character looks a lot like the Obamassiah of 50 years later.
    And it should be played in all the schools today. But Revnant Dream is right, you’d be hung by the teachers.
    .

  16. A cartoon for my teenager. I think a weekly viewing will do. If your smart you will sit your children down and have them watch it to.

  17. mad mike. prophetic? read the Bible and weep for what we have become.

  18. You are Absolutely right, BTDT. Thank You for this great cartoon. Communism was feared (with reason) 50 years ago. People like Joe Boyle (Canadian WWI hero that no one in Canada has heard about) reported back to Canada about the Bolshevik atrocities and it really woke up the people. People still owned property and were hell bent on owning their own businesses and being their own boss, back in those days…they didn’t want anyone telling them what to do; especially not the gument. Turdo changed all that…
    Time to take back our BNA Act and shred turd’s ‘scrap of paper’.

  19. Hi Jema54,
    A few times you’ve mentioned BTDT when I think you have meant me, batb, which stands for been around the block. If I’m right, what does BTDT stand for?! I’m curious.
    I’ve never heard of Joe Boyle, but it sounds like I should have.
    If anyone doubts that Christianity is a firm bulwark against all of these isms we’re swamped with these days, just look at how Christians were treated in Communist Russia and every other communist country: They were sent to the Gulag, their churches were usurped, their faith was banned, Christian worship went underground, they were murdered and tortured, and priests and nuns were actually nailed to church doors.
    Agreed, old white guy: If people think this 50-year-old film clip is prophetic, it’s obvious that they don’t know the veracity of God’s Word, which not only predicted these attacks on our freedoms but prescribed ways to avoid being enslaved by Godless doctrines.
    Just one of many prophetic words from the Second Letter of Paul to Timothy:
    God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline (2 Timothy 1).
    You must understand this, that in the last days distressing times will come. For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, brutes, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to the outward form of godliness but denying its power. … Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. But wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived. … For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths (2 Timothy 3).

  20. I am sorry batb, you are correct, I was complimenting you. BTDT is another excellent commentator here at sda; btdt stands for ‘been there, done that’.
    Joe Boyle was a Great Canadian who had the grit and determination of Patton and the brains of Einstein and the compassion of John the Baptist. Joe was born in 1867, the same year as Canada and IMO, he should be considered the temp plate for all aspiring Canadians to be top notch citizens. Briefly, Joe Boyle went to the Klondike in 1897 – pioneered the White Pass on his way to the Klondike – if you have ever been over the White Pass you will know that this is no mean feat; it is almost unbelievable that one man could climb over and map his way through that treacherous country. Joe moved to Dawson City and staked his claims in the Klondike and became a millionaire in five years – his feats in the Klondike are legendary and he gave back to the community in BIG ways. Joe took a hockey team from Dawson City to Ottawa to play for the Stanley Cup in 1905. When war broke out in 1914, Joe was too old to be accepted as a soldier so he outfitted and paid for a whole battery of soldiers and mobile machine guns. The British Military would not let him lead his battery into battle so he went and found himself a job with ACE (the American Engineers, in England). ACE sent Joe to Russia to sort out the Russian transportation (trains) problems – he did that and got men and ammo to the Russian soldiers on the frount lines. He saved the Eastern frount long enough for the allies to reorganise and fight the Germans without Russia. Joe was in Russia when the Revolution started so he learned all about the Bolshevik atrocities first hand – Joe had no use for Czar Nicolas II but he really despised Lenin and his thugs. Joe defaulted to becoming one of the founders of ACE and he organised that organization without speaking any Russian. (ACE of the Reilly ACE of Spies fame – many of the stories are true because many of them are about Joe Boyle). In the middle of all the war heroics in Russia Joe Boyle met the Queen of Romania, he saved a big batch of Romanian diplomat es (on the Queen’s request) from the Bolsheviks because they had been arrested in Russia, he got the Romanian crown jewels out of Russia (they had been in safekeeping from the Germans and had been confiscated by the Bolsheviks), he organized the Romanian army and got food and ammo from E.Hoover (Red Cross) in USA and from Canada to feed and arm the Romanians who were starving and unarmed because they were surrounded by enemies (Bolsheviks and Germans), he saved Romania from extinction. Joe was honored with medals for his heroism by five nations ..but not Canada. I have just grazed the tip of the iceberg here, batb -there is a website at the woodstock library that has photos and lots of information. You will be amazed, as I was, when I first discovered Joseph W. Boyle in a thin handbook in the local library in Dawson City, Yukon back in 1980. If you are interested in seeing some of the photos etc. that I have collected please let me know and I will arrange to e-mail them to you.
    Sorry for the long post Kate.

  21. Thanks for your post, Jema54. I guess batb could just as well be BTDT! ‘Same thing, really …
    I would love to see the photos. You can send them to batb1 at hotmail dot com. What an amazing guy — and too enterprising and too much his own person to be recognized by the bureaucrats in his own country … reminds me of that scripture, “A prophet is not without honour except in his own country …”

  23. “I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  24. Jema54: I’m having some difficulty accessing my hotmail account (this hasn’t happened before). ‘Am working on it. When I get it resolved, I’ll let you know. Sorry. I’m cyberspace/Internet/e-mail challenged!!!
    Would you have an address I can reach you at?

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