07-06-2020, 01:04 AM
...and recall that Hugh Downs (99) died a couple days ago.
Cinema and music are often evergreen, especially in historic contexts. Kirk Douglas will be remembered for his movies; Vera Lynn will be remembered keeping the human touch in a country in a death struggle with Satan Incarnate. Avoid the dehumanizing abyss of hatred?
There is nothing like shared danger to push the homogenization of a culture. We are not there yet... two opposing sides still think that their very different views of the American future will win, prevailing over the other side due to their rightness.
Cinema and music are often evergreen, especially in historic contexts. Kirk Douglas will be remembered for his movies; Vera Lynn will be remembered keeping the human touch in a country in a death struggle with Satan Incarnate. Avoid the dehumanizing abyss of hatred?
There is nothing like shared danger to push the homogenization of a culture. We are not there yet... two opposing sides still think that their very different views of the American future will win, prevailing over the other side due to their rightness.
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.
