Friday, September 05, 2025
When McCarthy was educating the world in the 1950s
THE FLYING ISLAND PLUMMETED INTO THE
SKY OF OBLIVION
That was a time when the cinema thought they had to educate the
masses of ignorant and hardly literate people in the world by showing them what
courage and stamina were from an American point of view. And to make sure they
got the proper ideas and the right impressions, they doubled up the visual and
visible action with an unbearable voice-over, the voice-over of Free America.
The film might have been slightly more able to survive special
effects and modern digitized technology, the time of the robots, as Melania
Trump would say, if they had used the camera as being the teacher selecting
actions and scenes to demonstrate what courage means in the flesh and in the
minds of the five people stranded in the iced vastness of the Great North of
Greenland or Canada.
But in 1953, under the
pressure of a certain McCarthy against the communist influence in Hollywood, even accusing Charlie Chaplin of
being a Soviet puppet, it was impossible for the new generations of average
artists who had taken over the whole apparatus of Hollywood studios to see
beyond the tip of their noses, and I say noses to remain polite. They favored
the good old pedagogy of repeating some mottoes and then having the audience
repeat them together like mantras with a prayer mill.
That was without considering the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob
Dylman, Joan Baez, Jimi Hendrix, and so many more who used their words to open
our eyes onto the world seen from an existential point of view, from a
heartfelt and mindful and serenely meditative vista that spoke to the deepest
self of the audience, the whole audience in the whole world. We would say today,
the global audience.
One of the rare artists from this generation of anti-communist and
pro-capitalistic B-Series artists will survive oblivion because he managed to
be elected President of the USA for two terms. That was after the defeat in
Vietnam, which proved that the repetitive recording plugged into your ears while
sleeping, like in A Brave New World, did not work at all. Reagan
was a mediocre actor on the screen, but he was a perfect actor for the White
House.
God Bless All The Children! Born in that new age, they had to be ready
for the new wars of the future in
Ukraine, in Gaza, in Sudan, and in
some other places. They were self-centered enough, illiterate enough too, as
swift as a smartphone with an AI in its microchips to be oblivious of the simple
fact that the dogs barking next door were simply being tortured into death by
some genocidal, tyrannical minds. They continue every day listening to their
smartphonic voices that tell them the world is finally at peace and happy.
Amen. Do not forget the “Amen” of “In God We, The People, Trust.”
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Jacques Coulardeau uploaded a paper
You can't survive a traumatic catastrophe if you do not stick to the
group and its leader
THE FLYING ISLAND PLUMMETED INTO THE SKY OF OBLIVION
2025 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com
4 Pages
Survival Analysis, * Aviation, * Courage, * Polar Climate, * Lost Space, * Silent and Oral Reading Stamina
