I had a lot of fun with the first project for my video class, and am really enjoying digging back into FinalCut Pro.
We were given a slew of random footage (primarily news segments) taped off of TV by the professor, and let loose to create a two-minute montage, edited to a soundtrack of our choosing. The mix of raw material suggested an approach to me.
I used two anti-war songs, one from Weimar and the other (suggested by my boyfriend) more contemporary. Then I took advantage of that same temporal parallelism to get my digs in on one of my current pet peeves: the fact the political right in America is wholesale borrowing the rhetoric of the Weimar political right—which eventually evolved into the Nazi party.
I may-or-may-not post the viddy up here. YouTube called my fair-use of 50 seconds of music for non-commerical educational purposes copyright infringement, but maybe Vimeo won’t?
at 9:10 pm
Yes, there are parallels that run through right-wing rhetoric from America to Italy to Sweden, but it’s a wide umbrella and this doesn’t have to equal a shift towards totalitarianism. The difference is whether those who hold these views are willing to kill their countrymen for them, and, more importantly, live in the kind of system that would allow them to do so. (Luckily, in America, Italy, and Sweden this is not the case.)
You can find just as many parallels between statements by Democrats and Communists (in fact I do, all the time, since, admittedly, the pendulum of my pet peeves swings more often in the other direction, you know been there done that, type of thing
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/06/25/winner-4/
at 9:10 pm
Yes, there are parallels that run through right-wing rhetoric from America to Italy to Sweden, but it’s a wide umbrella and this doesn’t have to equal a shift towards totalitarianism. The difference is whether those who hold these views are willing to kill their countrymen for them, and, more importantly, live in the kind of system that would allow them to do so. (Luckily, in America, Italy, and Sweden this is not the case.)
You can find just as many parallels between statements by Democrats and Communists (in fact I do, all the time, since, admittedly, the pendulum of my pet peeves swings more often in the other direction, you know been there done that, type of thing
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/06/25/winner-4/
at 9:12 pm
Whoops, looks like it posted twice.
at 5:42 pm
It’s really only the fringe-crazies who seem to do this: Karl Rove’s Dolchstoß, Glenn Beck comparing Obama and Pelosi to vampires, etc.
Did you click through to my explication-post? As a student of political philosophy and specifically European totalitarianism (undergrad and grad-school), I’m very aware that it can exist across the political spectrum. And, setting aside the fact that “left-wing fascism” is by definition an oxymoron, the right-wing demogogic fringe really is the main violator of Godwin’s Law at the moment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
at 10:38 am
First of all, props, no mad props, to Godwin and to you for inventing and introducing me to this law, respectively, I had never heard of it before, but will be referring to it on average 87.5 times a day from now on.
Secondly, rhetorical similarity aside, very good point about the contradiction of Obama being communist/fascist at the same time which hasn’t got ridiculed nearly enough (I say for consistency’s sake alone they should figure out which one they think he is and stick to it) and you are also very apt in pointing out that the right has far outpaced the left in it’s violation rate. (Although it is a bit ironic that you point that out their through the roof violation rate on the heels of your own violation
at 10:42 am
I’d be curious what you think. (It’s not a very extensive effort at this point.)
http://georgegarrol.wordpress.com/