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posted by martyb on Sunday July 22 2018, @07:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the Gooooooooooood-morning-Vietnam! dept.

Adrian Cronauer, the real live DJ portrayed by Robin Williams in the movie "Good Morning Vietnam" just passed, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44897634 (many other obits also available).

Keen to travel, Cronauer says he actually volunteered for a transfer to Vietnam, where he was hired initially as a news director for Armed Forces Radio there.

After his morning presenter left, he took up the 06:00 Dawn Buster show mantle, greeting troops with an enthusiastic yell of: "GOOOOOOOOD morning, Vietnam!"

Cronauer soon found out while interviewing troops that his ironic salute was often met with "the GI equivalent of: Get stuffed Cronauer" on bad days, he recounted at a veterans event in 2008.

"On one occasion, a guy picked up his M16 and blew away his radio," he told the Americans Veterans Centre conference.

Did any Soylentils hear him — live — in Vietnam?


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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday July 23 2018, @03:51AM (4 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday July 23 2018, @03:51AM (#711049) Journal

    Do you truly think I haven't had nightmares about all this? I *know* what's coming, one way or another. We're past the tipping point. Since you ask, I've been getting what I'm pretty sure are pre-cognitive warnings of my own death in late 2019 due to the consequences of political instability. What I truly wish for, perhaps doesn't and can't exist in this world...

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    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 23 2018, @07:14AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 23 2018, @07:14AM (#711092)

    You're quite intelligent but (please don't take this personally) more unstable than the political tensions in your country. There is no pre-cognition, dreams are just dreams. You can work on them getting better, instead of feeling powerless and doomed.

    The ruling class in your country has too much to lose, it will push hard against destabilization. There's still several decades of things getting worse ahead of you before the populace at large will say "enough is enough". It's not just your country though, the golden era of "The West" is coming to an end. The rich have extracted what they can and they are getting ready to bail.

    See this [medium.com] for an idea of what it is they fear.

    I've been where you are right now, but then I got older and I'm still here. And shit around me got yet worse. Since I don't believe in the political process to be able to stop the process any more I will just sit back and enjoy the show. I point the people I know at the signs of deceit and disinformation we're getting bombarded with by politics and media, they will eventually come to their own conclusions. It's the little I can do to speed things up so we can finally get to rebuilding a better world.

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday July 23 2018, @09:17PM (2 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday July 23 2018, @09:17PM (#711445) Journal

      I'm not speaking of dreams. There is a perfectly valid scientific explanation for what people refer to as psychic phenomena; we just haven't found it yet. Based on what's happening to me, I am going to guess it has to do with probability, and for all I know may be just a really, really strong intuitive grasp of history, something like unconscious pattern-matching on a massive, massive scale. Think "right brain is constantly doing psycho-history graph analysis" maybe. That doesn't cover *everything* I've done/been able to do, but I would bet something similar explains the rest.

      I'm also very familiar with what the Medium article outlines, and have been thinking that's been the plan of the ultra-wealthy since at least the 70s or 80s. Frankly, I think they're *trying* to make everything collapse, and the fact that it hasn't yet is only because they're not done preparing. And I'm not afraid to die in any case, for reasons that will probably make you think I'm nuts, but what can you do? *shrug* I did my best, left this world slightly better than I found it, and have very few regrets.

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      I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
      • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday July 24 2018, @03:02PM

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 24 2018, @03:02PM (#711740) Journal

        I can't explain anything about it, but shit's for real - at least sometimes.

        You've just arrived in Palermo, Sicily, by ship. The place is postcard perfect - it looks as beautiful as all the pictures you've ever seen. From the wharf you're docked at, the old city looks like it's been stuffed into a teacup, and you're at the bottom. You break away from all the shipmates, and head out to explore the terraces above you. Lots of beautiful girls, fantastic architecture, exotic food all around, vendors selling anything and everything. After a couple hours, you spy an indoor and outdoor restaurant. Take a seat under an umbrella, and browse the menu, which you only half understand.

        You're enjoying a delicious meal, when some asshole - probably a shipmate who has found you - says, "You've got to get out of here." You look around, and there's no shipmate. You look again, and you're not sure there's an English speaker anywhere near you. Hmmmm. Take a couple more bites, and you hear, "You've got to get out of here, NOW!" Look around with the same results - there are no Yanks in the vicinity.

        Think a couple seconds, stand up, throw a handful of money on the table, and walk. North, along the terrace, cross the street to the downhill side, then make a right down into the teacup at the first intersection. And, all hell breaks loose behind you - it's a frigging war zone. Stop, think, "What should I do?" "Well, whatever is happening, I have no orders, and it's probably not my fight."

        At the bottom of the teacup, go back aboard ship, and report what you've heard, without mentioning any guardian angels or anything.

        Next morning, the newspapers are filled with details of a Mafioso hit. There's the picture of your table, shot full of holes, upended in front of the shot out windows.

        Do I believe in this shit? Hell yes, and hell no. Can't explain it, can't even make any rational attempt to explain it - but it happened.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @12:11AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @12:11AM (#712046)

        GP here. No idea if you'll get to read this, but here goes:

        I'm quite acutely aware that there's a lot more to human perception than can be explained rationally with current models. Been diagnosed with schizophrenia after living with the symptoms slowly creeping in over years. It started with intuitions and feelings (of which enough turned out to be true to make me start trusting them) but progressed to full-time hallucinations and paranoia. I'm not saying that you might have that, you're probably too old (even though women usually get it later than men IIRC). But bear with me for a sec...

        A psychiatric working theory for schizophrenia is that that it's a breakdown of the consciousness' filtering engine, pushing raw sensory input to the brain instead of the high-level "executive summary" the mind has the capacity to process. From my experience, I'd say this sounds about right.

        I have a pretty good memory and I can remember my experiences in altered states of consciousness extremely well. Believe me, I've seen and heard (and done) some interesting shit :) It's not all just garbage input though and over some twenty years of living with this, on and off medications, I've learned to a) default to distrusting my perception and b) how to seperate signal from noise.

        Turns out not everything that seems to be a hallucination is just a brainfart. There is some useful signal, things I *shouldn't* be able to perceive but that my mind puts together from the raw stream, not always in the right order but some second-guessing gets me there. It's all still grounded in the laws of phyics though. FWIW, my right hemisphere also turned out a lot stronger in cognitive tests.

        Intuition and psychic-like perception in the present moment I can get behind. Predictions for next year as in your case I would not put off as complete horseshit, but not oracle-like powers either. There's too many variables at play and too much time in which conditions can change to even get in the ballpark, even if selection bias may tell you otherwise sometimes. Trust your intuition but don't fool yourself into making more of it than it is.

        I've had some pretty bad times (I'm much better now) and my fair share of confrontation with death. I don't fear that any more either and for obvious reasons, I don't think you're the nuttier one of us :)

        Still working on leaving the world a better place, lost some of my best years so I have some catch-up to do...