Some thoughts for free. I am a person who has been diagnosed
with bi-polar: specifically type 2 with schizoid effective disorder. This is
just a label, but it is a label that brings with it a perspective on life. What
the 2nd part of the diagnosis means, in actual affect, is that I
suffer psychoses if I am not on the correct drug regime. Most of what happens during a psychosis
is no one else’s business but those close to me, unfortunately and my own misfortune. Here
is where the free advice or the progressive thoughts are pertinent. (Speaking
for myself, the distinction between these 2 simple terms is close to ineffable.)
As the 21st C progresses the brilliance of
Charlie Chaplin, undisputed but not necessarily something I grasp, will recede.
I remember him for this:
He made a film entitled “ The Great Dictator”, such
knowledge is only a wiki away: not, however, the full importance of the film.
While Chaplin had the best intentions in making “ T. G. D.” (Sic), with
its wonderful final speech for love and humanity, freely available on youtube,
he regretted making the film. Of course this was in light of the atrocities
inflicted by the Nazis primarily on the Jewish people, regardless of their
nationality, but on many others as well. Any person with thoughts that lead to
feelings, or feelings that lead to thoughts ,would fight to stop this nightmare
repeated. With out the benefit of
historical hindsight, Chaplin felt ashamed to have made light of something too grave to be fodder for comedy. At the time this was a sentient way to react. We have had time to evaluate his brave
attempt to take the piss out of a horrific regime, and to distinguish between
Nazis and the proud German people. We should always thank Chaplin for his humane spirit, his love and the courage he showed to battle Hitler with his only weapon: art.
Chaplin would never deny the rumour that he was Jewish; it was being used as an aspersion but he held true to humanity.
Hitler's fascism was not written on a blank page: antisemitism had a long and undistinguished history. During the supposed enlightenment a good Jew was one who converted to Christianity. Ghettos did not start in 1940's Warsaw. The Dreyfuss affair occurred but a few decades before in that stylish home of racism: France. Eugenics, to stop inferiors breeding and build a cleaner more decent humanity, (By cutting people's brains in half, or - give or take an inch, and by sterilisation.) was accepted good medicine in the US and elsewhere. The Freedom marches in Australia were decades away, as was the right of first nation people to be included on the census.( ...and on and on...)
For "kicking against the pricks" in that environment I say to the remains of Charlie Chaplin:
Bravo you Quixotic bag of old bones and dust.
Chaplin would never deny the rumour that he was Jewish; it was being used as an aspersion but he held true to humanity.
Hitler's fascism was not written on a blank page: antisemitism had a long and undistinguished history. During the supposed enlightenment a good Jew was one who converted to Christianity. Ghettos did not start in 1940's Warsaw. The Dreyfuss affair occurred but a few decades before in that stylish home of racism: France. Eugenics, to stop inferiors breeding and build a cleaner more decent humanity, (By cutting people's brains in half, or - give or take an inch, and by sterilisation.) was accepted good medicine in the US and elsewhere. The Freedom marches in Australia were decades away, as was the right of first nation people to be included on the census.( ...and on and on...)
For "kicking against the pricks" in that environment I say to the remains of Charlie Chaplin:
Bravo you Quixotic bag of old bones and dust.
To be continued, with some thought of continuity. Thankfully.
thankyou to the Joel family. I have not yet watched this video fully but it is freely available on youtube
thankyou to the Joel family. I have not yet watched this video fully but it is freely available on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hC2vXjIsi0
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