Violence and Cognitive Dissonance: From J. D. Salinger to "Top Gun: Maverick"

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  • čas přidán 11. 09. 2024

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  • @iltitano
    @iltitano Před rokem +2

    Good to have you back after all this waiting! Finally!

  • @theartoftzara
    @theartoftzara Před rokem +3

    I thought I was crazy for not liking this movie! I never got what all the excitement was about. Thanks for this video! At least now I know I'm not insane.

  • @richwatts8824
    @richwatts8824 Před rokem

    Thanks for this video. There are so many films I just can't watch any more (original Top Gun bad example as I always thought it to be garbage), I'm so confident in the belief that Film +Media is nothing but mind control. Heaven help us all.

  • @godsnotdead6973
    @godsnotdead6973 Před rokem +1

    Great video man. One of my good friends always says we need a big war of our own. He thinks it'll make men out of boys and make us great. Such a goofy worldview.

    • @ExistentialistDasein
      @ExistentialistDasein  Před rokem

      Yes, I've heard many similar comments. Violence is the curse of our species.

  • @MR-kf9bi
    @MR-kf9bi Před rokem

    Hello, what do you think about movies like "Johnny Got His Gun"s adaptation
    Or movies who jokes about world wars, maybe like Chaplin's Great Dictator? In France we had a few movies joking about how we "resisted/collaborated" during ww2. These are some of the funniest movies ive ever seen (La Septième Compagnie)

    • @ExistentialistDasein
      @ExistentialistDasein  Před rokem +1

      I don't know the first movie you're mentioning, but I like Chaplin's film. Just to be clear, it's not really the case that I would dismiss a film just because it happens to be about war-sometime ago, I enjoyed a relatively recent film called A Hidden Life. But I seriously don't understand the whole cult behind films that glorify warmongering.

  • @lelagrangeeffectphysics4120

    What i currently see is that very much like the past, the present and probably the future, war and war films are pressure valves for societies to offload their frustrations and shortcomings on to others, right now life for most of the west is while not hard, it certainly is harder than it was 10-20 years ago, people find themselves on a very short budget and career/social progression is very hard to achieve, mostly due to elite-overdominance and incompetent nepotistic goverments, this creates rage and hatred for the elites which builds up over time, if you dont have a war to throw it at you get the french revolution, if you do you have WW2, The Afghan war and the Falklands war, and right now we have the ukraine war for us to rejoice over dead Ivans in the trench and a crusade aggainst ists and phobes.
    I also find it funny how Sellinger protested to not glorify WW2 which ironicly enough ended up becoming the romanticized war in history, and while the Axis did not leave many choices for a peacefull surrender or negotiations of any sort of matter i just ask myself on easy it is to make a war "noble", how noble it was to put iraqis in a shoebox with hellfire missiles because it was to combat terrorism and that every dead iraqi, taliban or not would aid in world peace.