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Saturday January 24th, 2009
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Thoughts on Barefoot Gen
posted 01/24/2009, 7:53 AM (InformationLiberation)
[Category: Commentary]
 If you've yet to see it, Barefoot Gen is a must see movie depicting a young boys struggle with life in Japan before, after, and during the nuclear bombing of his country. It is an extremely powerful film which you will never dare see in American theaters or on American television.
Thoughts on the Film
I feel like more can be learned through such terrible human tragedy than through the highest and most noble of philosophies. The raw humanness of it all cuts through all the conditioning in the world, the incredible wrongness is just so crystal clear.
Appreciation of life seems to be almost nonexistent in the western world, tragedy on this type of scale has never occurred to us westerners, yet we have doled it out to so many other countries and native peoples I can't even begin to list them all.
We are the biggest hypocrites in the world, we have perpetrated and continue to perpetrate some of the most sadistic, cruel, inhumane mass murders in history and yet people hold their heads high when people speak of "the just war" and every other mass genocide committed in their name. If you honor the so-called "war heroes" then take responsibility for the innocent people who's lives they ruined through their so-called "heroism," because they did ruin people's lives, and you know it. You can't have it one way and not the other.
What is it going to take for people to wake up? How are things ever supposed to change if people actually take pride in the greatest collective stains on the history of mankind?
It really sickens me, it's hard to even consider those people human. They've lost any sense of humanity in them. It's sick because part of me feels like they are the people who need help most and yet they are the people who want it the least and feel themselves the most "just," and at the same time they are ... (more) |
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