07-15-2016, 06:39 PM
It also works for movies.
On my birth date the #1 movie was Guys and Dolls.
September 1, 1939, when Satan Incarnate transformed Poland into a veritable colony of Hell, starting the most destructive war in inhuman history. (The Women -- and I have never seen it)
Paradoxically, had the fascists seen the success of this movie on or about December 7, 1941, they might have recognized America as the lethal menace that it would have soon become -- even if it was a zany comedy. America may not have been spoiling for a fight, but it was certainly ready. That's how America was in late 1941 -- resolute, united, easily motivated, and easily organized.
On my birth date the #1 movie was Guys and Dolls.
September 1, 1939, when Satan Incarnate transformed Poland into a veritable colony of Hell, starting the most destructive war in inhuman history. (The Women -- and I have never seen it)
Paradoxically, had the fascists seen the success of this movie on or about December 7, 1941, they might have recognized America as the lethal menace that it would have soon become -- even if it was a zany comedy. America may not have been spoiling for a fight, but it was certainly ready. That's how America was in late 1941 -- resolute, united, easily motivated, and easily organized.
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.