I don't know how to embed it, but it's worth the trouble to click the link and watch:
J.B. Pritzker warns against authoritarianism
A speech worth watching
A speech worth watching
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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Re: A speech worth watching
An excellent speech and well delivered.
I have been against what seemed to me to be overly hysterical comparisons of Trump and Hitler. (I'm slow - I didn't buy my first flared jeans until they were safely out of fashion.). But all the warning signs are there; and never forget that Germany, in the 1930s, was the most cultured country on the planet. Music, poetry, art were all there. I read Umberto Eco's 'The Prague Cemetery' recently - like other Eco works, it's impossible to tell where history and fiction meet. It traces the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' - the hoax book which purported to be a secret Jewish plan for world domination and which was so influential in Europe and, indeed, 1920s USA. (Henry Ford, whom we have been indoctrinated to view as a pioneer of industrialization, underwrote and promoted publication of the Protocol in the US, and only ceased when it was pointed out to him that Jews buy cars, too: and he and the Ford Motor Company have never apologized for their role in that disgusting episode.).
We saw Musk giving a Nazi-style salute a few days ago. Steve Bannon ended his talk to CPAC with an outstretched arm, palm down (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... alute-cpac) which could not be misinterpreted. Musk, despite his wealth, is a stupid man and maybe we can explain away his moronic behavior. Bannon is not, and we cannot ignore this. The German people followed Hitler down the path he chose for them and he was 'democratically' elected. It can happen here.
I have been against what seemed to me to be overly hysterical comparisons of Trump and Hitler. (I'm slow - I didn't buy my first flared jeans until they were safely out of fashion.). But all the warning signs are there; and never forget that Germany, in the 1930s, was the most cultured country on the planet. Music, poetry, art were all there. I read Umberto Eco's 'The Prague Cemetery' recently - like other Eco works, it's impossible to tell where history and fiction meet. It traces the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' - the hoax book which purported to be a secret Jewish plan for world domination and which was so influential in Europe and, indeed, 1920s USA. (Henry Ford, whom we have been indoctrinated to view as a pioneer of industrialization, underwrote and promoted publication of the Protocol in the US, and only ceased when it was pointed out to him that Jews buy cars, too: and he and the Ford Motor Company have never apologized for their role in that disgusting episode.).
We saw Musk giving a Nazi-style salute a few days ago. Steve Bannon ended his talk to CPAC with an outstretched arm, palm down (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... alute-cpac) which could not be misinterpreted. Musk, despite his wealth, is a stupid man and maybe we can explain away his moronic behavior. Bannon is not, and we cannot ignore this. The German people followed Hitler down the path he chose for them and he was 'democratically' elected. It can happen here.
Re: A speech worth watching
Here’s another one, a bit longer but so many Americans could benefit from listening:
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan