Posted by Louis1989 on 10/25/2006, 9:22 pm, in reply to "Babel"
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Hi Gram!
Good to hear you had a good time visiting Dot.
Thanks for the glimse on Babel. I haven't heard much about it here yet.
I can't wait to go see Flags of Our Fathers, I love Clint Eastwood and I feel those 2 movies he did about the Iwo Jima battle are going to be one of my favorites of his. Flags of Our Father has just been out yesterday here but I don't have the time to go see it until next week.
This weekend I'm out to aikido seminar again.
I love the way how Clint Eastwood is going to show us who the real heroes are and how the truth is so often distorted in order to glorify one's army actions and to make the enemies look like they deserve the worst treatment and merciless death and destruction.
I also can't wiat to see the second movie focusing on the Japanese's point of view on these events. I am curious to see how we will get to understand the way the japanese people have been brain washed into thinking the only way to keep one's honor was to follow that insane extreem military spirit that lead them to think they couldn't let themselves be weak and benevolent to the point of prefering death to life. This false reasonning is not as specific to Japan as we might think, that's the same spirit that the nazis, and in a way some terrorist groups and other supporters of force and violence have been using to get their point or to take power.
It is the same everywhere, in every country, and since the beginning of times. You gotta motivate your own people in order to convince them to go out and kill perfect stangers and to get killed for your country or your ideology. That's not a natural human behavior, although savagery and hate can be rather easily triggered as it is part of human nature also.
There is a famous ancient roman general who did a long speach in order to motivate war against the city of Carthage (not sure of the english spelling of this city), that ended by "Cartago delenda est", which means in latin, "Carthage must be destroyed". Mankind has not changed much in 2000 years, hasn't it?
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