I get what you mean. They can't literally grasp that this once had been past and, by that, reality to some people - people like them. But remember what I told you: This is what automatically comes from having no natural predators around; humans tend to start to think this is the natural state of things. So, telling them about anything else is as far away from them as the moon from the earth. It's totally unaware to them that they live in the unnatual state of things. So that makes how it comes that they act totally unaffected by it. It's like talking to a frog about flying.
It's fairly frightening that they don't listen, but who will blame them? They're embedded in a society that tells them snobbishly "this is all long past, we, the perfect society, don't behave like this anymore" all around the clock all the time.
Kind of remembers me now to the movie "Die neunte Kompanie" (Original title: "9 rota"). At the beginning, it starts a little like a Russian version of Full Metal Jacket, with the conscripts being flippant and fooling around. They totally are not very serious about what is going to await them in Afghanistan. And then, in Afghanistan, actually around every corner, there may be a boom that can mean your end. In the end, this also becomes clear. It becomes visible it's the pure brutal truth. Like one of the higher soldiers says in a night where something goes wrong according to the plan: "Hier gibt es keine schlechten Noten. Hier draußen gibt es nur den Tod!". And, in the end, it's not many of them soldiers the conscripts get to know that return, including not many of themselves return home as the Red Army leaves the country.
It actually shows that pretty well how that is talking to young people about that topic which literally had no deep-meaning life-conflicts before. They literally can't grasp it. And in the end, even the artist guy in that movie that seems a little more intelligent among all of the conscripts, he gets to careless in a moment and that means his death.
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Date: 28 January 2017 04:04 pm (UTC)But remember what I told you: This is what automatically comes from having no natural predators around; humans tend to start to think this is the natural state of things. So, telling them about anything else is as far away from them as the moon from the earth. It's totally unaware to them that they live in the unnatual state of things.
So that makes how it comes that they act totally unaffected by it.
It's like talking to a frog about flying.
It's fairly frightening that they don't listen, but who will blame them? They're embedded in a society that tells them snobbishly "this is all long past, we, the perfect society, don't behave like this anymore" all around the clock all the time.
Kind of remembers me now to the movie "Die neunte Kompanie" (Original title: "9 rota").
At the beginning, it starts a little like a Russian version of Full Metal Jacket, with the conscripts being flippant and fooling around. They totally are not very serious about what is going to await them in Afghanistan.
And then, in Afghanistan, actually around every corner, there may be a boom that can mean your end. In the end, this also becomes clear. It becomes visible it's the pure brutal truth.
Like one of the higher soldiers says in a night where something goes wrong according to the plan: "Hier gibt es keine schlechten Noten. Hier draußen gibt es nur den Tod!".
And, in the end, it's not many of them soldiers the conscripts get to know that return, including not many of themselves return home as the Red Army leaves the country.
It actually shows that pretty well how that is talking to young people about that topic which literally had no deep-meaning life-conflicts before. They literally can't grasp it.
And in the end, even the artist guy in that movie that seems a little more intelligent among all of the conscripts, he gets to careless in a moment and that means his death.
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Date: 28 January 2017 04:15 pm (UTC)