Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" Speech, With Accompanying Video That Reflects the Essence of Occupy and C99.
Just finished watching the PBS film "The Last Laugh," and was piqued to watch the Chaplin film in its entirety for the first time tonight. The reason I'm aware of the speech is because it went viral during Occupy and it moved me deeply. I see it again as being pretty much a perfect video for these times, and for the C99 family to relish and take inspiration from.
It's incredible how the imagery in this video aligns so perfectly with the amazing speech that socialist Charlie Chaplin gave. It's further more stunning in the fact that he wrote, directed, produced, starred in and composed the music for it too. This powerful and moving video is now at over 16 million views. I'd like to think that he would have approved and smiled upon seeing it. Many of you have probably seen it already. To me, it's worth seeing regularly.
If this doesn't sum up most everything we're about then I don't know what does:
How much of a different world could we have if this were required viewing in every school around the globe, with mandated long discussions to follow?
I'm off now to hopefully see the rest of the film, or to soon be falling into bed.
'nite all.
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After my grandmother passed, my mother told me she said to her,
"you know, your son's a dreamer."
At first I took that as an affront. But the older I get I find myself wanting to thank her for that. I wish I could speak with her now, to find out what she meant. I don't believe she meant it in a bad way.
As T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) wrote:
Dreamer. Heh...I like that.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Compliment, Big Time.
I have always been and forever will be ...
"we think too much and feel too little"
quote from the speech that I think is what makes uniting over the digital world so hopeless and fake. Aren't our own inventions, thoughts and technical developments our biggest enemies and turn out to be so self-destructive that what we harvest from those seeds is our own rise into tyranny?
Be happy to be a dreamer, MfQ, it's devastating to your soul if can't dream anymore.
Dream on!
inventions
Not necessarily!
(You're soaking in a very good contrary example now!)
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
One day my dad came home from work
and said, "your teacher says you daydream too much. You need to stop that." I was in fourth or fifth grade. I didn't ask him what daydreaming is. I just said ok. I must have daydreamed for years after that, perhaps even until today, wondering just what daydreaming is.
Dream on, Mark. I would be dead without mine.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
N ow the video is blocked due
N ow the video is blocked due to copyright reasons, the speech must be downloaded from YT as they seem to be clamping down on the shared ideal. we must rescue the clips from the corporate clutches.
So long, and thanks for all the fish
Except ... it still seems to be assessable:
@PriceRip Thanks for grabbing it
Thanks for grabbing it
So long, and thanks for all the fish
We are the dreamers of dreams...
We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams.
World-losers and world-forsakers,
Upon whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers,
Of the world forever, it seems.
Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo