Word: hitlerism
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...artist has no political responsibility for his or her art will strike most viewers as naive at best, and disingenuous at worst. And the idea that "Triumph of the Will" is not propaganda is just plain impossible to take seriously. Riefenstahl defends herself by saying she was hired by Hitler as an artist to make an artistic film, not a political...
...hell of a way to think of human beings. Every moral system known to our species starts with the proposition that each human life is precious (even though we may not agree on when that life begins), each child a potential source of delight. Surely there are other philosophies -- Hitler and his epigones in Bosnia represent one -- but they cannot claim the label moral. When we start thinking of the neighbors' kids as pollutants, we're on our way to Rwanda writ large...
...good versus evil, God versus the Devil. Which side you on?" In fact, the listener, swept up in the band's passion and sound, can't help being on Public Enemy's side throughout the record as Chuck takes on the American Patriarchal Military Industrial Racist Complex, Inc. On Hitler Day, he attacks the idea of having a holiday for Christopher Columbus: "How can you call a takeover/ A discovery?" And on White Man's Heaven Is a Black Man's Hell, short, sharp phrases contrast the world of white privilege with the oppressed status of African Americans: "Black history...
Where did all this mumbo-jumbo about "false teachings" come from? I could see it now: Immorality 10a. An introduction to corruption, crime, debauchery, avarice and murder. Readings from "gangsta rap" lyrics, the Marquis de Sade, Adolf Hitler, required of concentrators...
...played as a grotesque sitcom that ends when her awful father (Rodney Dangerfield) is beaten to death and her weak mother is set ablaze. When Mickey and Mallory visit an Indian shaman (Russell Means), the words demon and too much tv are superimposed on their torsos. Flashes of Hitler and Stalin, insects and rhinos, The Wild Bunch and Midnight Express (the film whose screenplay won Stone his first Oscar) explode on the window of a motel room while the two ( make love and a hostage looks on. As the Cowboy Junkies' ethereal version of Sweet Jane plays on the sound...