forever burned.
The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion - Giacomo Leopardi.
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A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. - Thomas Mann.
Okay... from the what in the name of all that's holy and, serious WTF department... I present, recalled government propaganda cartoons.
Someone once said that the most affective means of propaganda in the history of the world was the American Movie Industry... as some of you might know, they used to show little cartoons before the movie (they did this in my younger years too, along with copius amounts of Neil Diamond)... Well, here is a screen shot of one of the Cartoons, which feature the Russians (remember our Allies at the time) as Gremlins, (not the Mogwai kind...) but as wacky slapstick Bolshaviks, with those Rusian Balet hats on, and rather large noses... eeek... I dont show that screen shot, but this one below, which I'll remind you again, was shown to audiences, I guess to whip up the notion that a horrible syphilis maddened murderous dictator who was hell bent on destroying europe, but (and here's the caveat) was actually just sort of a doofus)
Here we see a screen capture that is sure to crush the Panzer devision with the mighty blow of the world's most pathetic atempt at humour:
The other cartoons, which feature Popeye and Donald Duck are equally bizzare, and one (Donald's) pleads america to give 2x their tax dollars (what was bilking the IRS out of tax money somehow easy as pie in 1943???) and I'll repeat the mantra exactly as it was read in the cartoon, so that America could buy "GUNS GUNS GUNS GUNS".
Hey, I'm no anti-american libarlist with feelings of inferority, a hatred of everything that is strong, and a false affinity towards anything that is weak... but this is just, too bizzare for words.
....Somewhere Ian Curtis is spining cartwheels in his grave.
"New Oder"... hoo hah?!? seriously, a joey laurence: woah.
ps. I know that of course in nature the swastika now is generally overpowered by it's sense of offensive relation. Of course however, it was co-opted by a racist anti-gay (yet, oddly vegitarian), madman... prior to that it enjoyed it's fame as a primary religious symbol for Indians, (American), and Buddhists, as well as countless other religions.
There is even a famous photo of then Jaquellin O'Nassis as a young girl wearing traditional Indian garb, with of course the (inverted) and correct Swastika.
The word swastika comes from I believe ancient sumeria, from the phrases Su Asati Ka... some part of that meaning sun. as well as a symbol for peace, eternal life, and love.
Sonmeone now please poke my eyes out with hot knitting needles. See you in hell Merry Melodies.
Now I'm going to go listen to some Keith Jarret and try to forget this whole thing ever made it to celluloid let alone shown to people probably tappdancing in battle helmets as the feature film.
The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion - Giacomo Leopardi.
~~~
~~~
....
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. - Thomas Mann.
Okay... from the what in the name of all that's holy and, serious WTF department... I present, recalled government propaganda cartoons.
Someone once said that the most affective means of propaganda in the history of the world was the American Movie Industry... as some of you might know, they used to show little cartoons before the movie (they did this in my younger years too, along with copius amounts of Neil Diamond)... Well, here is a screen shot of one of the Cartoons, which feature the Russians (remember our Allies at the time) as Gremlins, (not the Mogwai kind...) but as wacky slapstick Bolshaviks, with those Rusian Balet hats on, and rather large noses... eeek... I dont show that screen shot, but this one below, which I'll remind you again, was shown to audiences, I guess to whip up the notion that a horrible syphilis maddened murderous dictator who was hell bent on destroying europe, but (and here's the caveat) was actually just sort of a doofus)
Here we see a screen capture that is sure to crush the Panzer devision with the mighty blow of the world's most pathetic atempt at humour:
The other cartoons, which feature Popeye and Donald Duck are equally bizzare, and one (Donald's) pleads america to give 2x their tax dollars (what was bilking the IRS out of tax money somehow easy as pie in 1943???) and I'll repeat the mantra exactly as it was read in the cartoon, so that America could buy "GUNS GUNS GUNS GUNS".
Hey, I'm no anti-american libarlist with feelings of inferority, a hatred of everything that is strong, and a false affinity towards anything that is weak... but this is just, too bizzare for words.
....Somewhere Ian Curtis is spining cartwheels in his grave.
"New Oder"... hoo hah?!? seriously, a joey laurence: woah.
ps. I know that of course in nature the swastika now is generally overpowered by it's sense of offensive relation. Of course however, it was co-opted by a racist anti-gay (yet, oddly vegitarian), madman... prior to that it enjoyed it's fame as a primary religious symbol for Indians, (American), and Buddhists, as well as countless other religions.
There is even a famous photo of then Jaquellin O'Nassis as a young girl wearing traditional Indian garb, with of course the (inverted) and correct Swastika.
The word swastika comes from I believe ancient sumeria, from the phrases Su Asati Ka... some part of that meaning sun. as well as a symbol for peace, eternal life, and love.
Sonmeone now please poke my eyes out with hot knitting needles. See you in hell Merry Melodies.
Now I'm going to go listen to some Keith Jarret and try to forget this whole thing ever made it to celluloid let alone shown to people probably tappdancing in battle helmets as the feature film.
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