scream-of-consciousness;
"If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell."
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Wednesday, January 04, 2012
The WAVE
Culture
Die Welle
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The
Wave (Die Welle)
is a compelling German film that premiered at Sundance in 2008.
It's
based on
an actual experience of a high school class in Palo Alto, CA in April
1967, and demonstrates how groups of people can be
manipulated. Eric
Hoffer on celluloid. There was a 1980's version that's nowhere close to
being as well done or dramatic at this German (subtitled) remake.
I
want to say that everyone should watch it, but that presupposes that
everyone agrees with my taste in film. Instead I'll say, "Hey,
someone
captured Soros and Obama creating the Occupy Movement. And it was soooooo easy."
Even if you're well versed in The True Believer,
watching it happen is chilling— and instructive.
Plus, Christiane Paul
is just lovely.
PS - I found this screen cap interesting. Here the protagonist,
high school teacher high-school teacher Rainer Wenger, picks up
his mail. Earlier, a student had also used Bush as an example of
a modern day dictator. It brings to mind the Nazi belt buckle
shown in The Longest Day,
inscribed with the legend "Gott ist mit uns."
So I suppose it's probable that Obamunists view the Founding Fathers
as die
Diktatoren, and the concept of "Freedom"
a mass movement of zealots. .
"The Iron Dream is a metafictional 1972 alternate history novel by Norman Spinrad.
The book has a nested narrative that tells a story within a story. On the surface, the novel presents an unexceptional pulp, post-apocalypse science fiction action tale entitled Lord of the Swastika. However, this is a pro-fascist narrative written by an alternate-history Adolf Hitler, who in this timeline emigrated from Germany to America in 1919 after the Great War, and used his modest artistic skills to become first a pulp-science fiction illustrator and later a successful science fiction writer, telling lurid, purple-prosed adventure stories under a thin SF-veneer. Spinrad was intent on demonstrating just how close Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces — and much science fiction and fantasy literature — can be to the racist fantasies of Nazi Germany.[1] The nested narrative is followed by a faux scholarly analysis by a fictional literary critic, Homer Whipple, of New York University."
The book was banned only in Germany. The American Nazi Party put the book on its recommended reading list, despite the satirical intent of the work because they're fkn stupid.
When I was in my early 20's my sf loving friends and I all read this and went around quoting and speaking lines from it. We got some *really* interesting looks.
On a not unrelated theme, may I recommend Norman Spinrad's book "The Iron Dream",
ReplyDeleteISBN-10: 1902002164.
It was banned here for a while, but should be available in the USA and UK.
"The Iron Dream is a metafictional 1972 alternate history novel by Norman Spinrad.
ReplyDeleteThe book has a nested narrative that tells a story within a story. On the surface, the novel presents an unexceptional pulp, post-apocalypse science fiction action tale entitled Lord of the Swastika. However, this is a pro-fascist narrative written by an alternate-history Adolf Hitler, who in this timeline emigrated from Germany to America in 1919 after the Great War, and used his modest artistic skills to become first a pulp-science fiction illustrator and later a successful science fiction writer, telling lurid, purple-prosed adventure stories under a thin SF-veneer. Spinrad was intent on demonstrating just how close Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces — and much science fiction and fantasy literature — can be to the racist fantasies of Nazi Germany.[1] The nested narrative is followed by a faux scholarly analysis by a fictional literary critic, Homer Whipple, of New York University."
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The book was banned only in Germany. The American Nazi Party put the book on its recommended reading list, despite the satirical intent of the work because they're fkn stupid.
When I was in my early 20's my sf loving friends and I all read this and went around quoting and speaking lines from it. We got some *really* interesting looks.
ReplyDelete--Sapo Mal