Posted on 12/18/2016 6:16:52 AM PST by rktman
“The Man in the High Castle,” which returns with its second season on Friday, depicts an America changed by conquest, not an election, and changed far more starkly. (In its back story, Franklin D. Roosevelt was assassinated, and the United States did not enter the war until too late.) As the internet has taught us, Nazi analogies tend to crush nuance into fine powder.
But if it would be hyperbole to treat the series like a documentary, it would be denial to say it plays no differently now than it did before. However hopeful some people may find the election results, there are also bigots who feel validated, for whom the permission to bully and strong-arm was not a sad side effect of the campaign but the whole point.
And “The Man in the High Castle,” a drama about finding the imagination to resist darkness, has a new relevance, asked for or not.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
I watched the first season and look forward to seeing how the story develops.
If any side in this battle is Fascist, it is the left which refuses to allow any one to disagree. Try wearing a Trump hat on campus.
Whether Marxist or Fascist, totalitarianism is bad.
Lesson from “The Man In The High Castle”:
Don’t lose wars and support and defend the Second Amendment - with your life if necessary.
The except here is from the original review, not Newsbusters’ comment on it.
http://www.newsweek.com/man-high-castle-and-prospect-trump-presidency-532078
It’s hard to judge yet whether Man in the High Castle will end on such a hopeful note, or if it is ultimately setting viewers up for a steep fall. But the lesson for those of us terrified of Trump’s America has to be in those words. Even if we don’t know if we can change the racism, the sexism, the xenophobia or prevent our government's descent into a shameless kleptocracy, we still must fight.
http://www.dw.com/en/why-the-man-in-the-high-castle-is-more-relevant-than-ever/a-18899785
As right-wing parties gain popularity in Europe and the US, fears of xenophobia grow. "The Man in the High Castle" is a provocative thought experiment on how institutional racism impacts ordinary people.
The show’s premise—what if the Allies lost World War II?—is only slightly more unnerving than our current reality: What if Donald Trump was elected president of the United States?
It takes a real creative genius to take their own thought process all the way through to: “You disagree with my politics? Well, then — you’re Hitler.”
People like this are too stupid to recognize their own stupidity.
This from a Townall article concerning Frank Zappa’ views on facism:
“The interviewer says to Zappa, “There were reports you called the students fascists.” This is when Zappa comes forth with a brilliant statement: “Yes I did. Because I think that there’s definitely a fascistic element, not only in the left wing of Germany, but in the United States, too.
Any sort of political ideology that doesn’t allow for the rights and doesn’t take into consideration the differences that people have is wrong. I won’t go for it. I don’t care what kind of label you stick on it.” “
The entire piece if you’re interested:
Let them write and talk. We won. I’ll take the second one.
You can find anything in a movie or tv if you exaggerate and imagine it. So many times we’ve seen lies about movies and tv shows going anti trump only to find out the media and internet fools lied. Talk about fake news. Conservatives are as guilty as liberals many times. You have to be so careful these days.
Thanks, I liked Frank Zappa. I think he was very studious in his observations of Communism too.
Don’t forget Godwin’s law of Hitler analogies that is “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler is near, that is, if an online discussion goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Hitler,”
Season 2 is out.
The fascist in the last election was Hillary. Brown shirts beating people in the streets, speech codes, and defining white males as less than Human.
Just so everyone knows who this jerk is:
“He currently lives in Brooklyn. His father was Catholic, and of Polish descent. His mother was Jewish from a Sephardi background from Morocco. Poniewozik attended church as a child, and became an atheist as a teenager; he has since described himself as “culturally Jewish”.”
The more the left equates hitler and Trump, the more they legitimize hitler. Trump is a businessman who has done very well, and, to our knowledge, hasn’t called for the killing of anyone, nor personally killed anyone. If hitler is now his equal, the language suffers another fatal hit thanks to the left.
We can now add “Hitler” to the hundreds of words that have absolutely no meaning anymore. And yet, they’re obsessed with words and their “micro aggressions.”
Which is why I never do - Stalin, Mao and Pol-Pot are so much more appropriate, as a rule. Mao killed more in his reign over China than anyone else ever killed (raw numbers). In modern times, Pol-Pot probably killed more per-capita and if you add Stalin's pre-war purges and encouragement of Hitler as a buffer to the West, he might end up responsible for the most deaths, especially as he was the international bulwark for Mao from the 1930s on.
FYI: For the worst killer-leader in terms of world population, it appears that Genghis Khan, Temujin, holds that record and will, God-willing, remain the record holder forever. If one accepts a common guesstimate of the Mongol Khanate causing the direct deaths of 40 million people while Genghis Khan ruled it, that was about 11% of that era's world population.
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