09-20-2016, 02:39 PM
I noted on another thread that the movie in which "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" was introduced, Keep 'em Flying, was the #1 hit on Pearl Harbor Day. Had the fascists made note of that they might have been leery of attacking America. Americans may not have wanted war, but they were emotionally prepared. America would need to militarize its economy, but that could be done quickly and without undue hardship. The movie was a comedy but it showed America deadly-serious in its will for survival.
Pop culture reflects the mass attitudes of the time, and America was not the soft, weak, vulnerable prey that some thought it was.
Pop culture reflects the mass attitudes of the time, and America was not the soft, weak, vulnerable prey that some thought it was.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.