Crying and laughing at the same time. 😂
The fog of War!
An excellent thread, thank you; and then there's the master manipulator in the Kremlin.
On top of the disastrous Covid-19 period, we're all in big trouble, thanks to the machinations of a mindless and dysfunctional administration in the White House!
Yes, it's from 'The Origins of Totalitarianism', and I think you're right, Hannah would definitely have tried to warn us. But would people listen in spite of themselves? 🙏
I often wonder what Hannah Arendt would think of our current quagmire?
'Thistle Grove, South Kensington', from 'My Recollections and Reflections' (1913) by Yoshio Markino
"I don't dislike him. I just don't like him. Which is quite different."
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Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham (Maggie Smith)
Downton Abbey,
Season 2, Episode 6.
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But no one signed the permission slip for his mindless and murderous excursion!
So cute together. 💙
I love Charlie, a timeless genius. Modern Times is one of my favourite films.
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Dr. Strangelove readily comes to mind.
The Tramp was only trying to be helpful. A classic scene. 😂
This is how I access BlueSky...🎬
"And you came from--?"
"From Lowood school, in ---shire."
"Ah! a charitable concern. How long were you there?"
"Eight years."
"Eight years! you must be tenacious of life."
(Rochester is questioning Jane about her background):
Jane Eyre (1943)
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1847📚
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"Bather Woods surveys with eclectic range and idiosyncratic depth his implacable and irascible subject’s preoccupations with love, loneliness, morality, politics, gender, sexuality, death, suicide, fame and madness."
New book review in @spectrumculture.bsky.social
"Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real."
Cormac McCarthy, 'All the Pretty Horses' (The Border Trilogy, #1) 1992.
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The final Court summation by Spencer Tracy (Judge Dan Heywood), is brilliant...
American Rhetoric: Movie Speech from Judgment at Nuremberg - Judge Haywood Delivers Decision of the Court www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeche...
I agree, it's an important film. The 2025 version was very well done, but I preferred the original 'Judgement At Nuremberg' (1961)
Good morning my fellow traveller.🫂🤗
The abyss is staring back at the people who are committing these humanitarian and environmental catastrophes. 💔
The cumulative effect of barbarism!
Absolutely horrifying! 💔
Wise words. 💙
"We are in a period of transition; but a transition towards what? No one has the slightest idea."
Simone Weil,
(1909~1943)
'Oppression and Liberty'
(circa 1932~1933, First Published 1955) 📚
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"There is no sure foundation set on blood, No certain life achieved by others' death."
King John,
(Act 4, Scene 2)
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I think that we all know the answer. 🙏
You're very welcome.
Congratulations Arthur. 📚🌟
