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The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)

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Re: The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)

#5
Perhaps a better way to phrase this is "We think too much and care too little" - feelings, by themselves, are not some fountain of wisdom and insight. You can have feelings of revulsion or repulsion, feelings of disgust and anger.

Feelings are ephemeral and easily manipulated.

Re: The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)

#6

I'd wager it's more like we don't think at all and feel only anger. At least online that is.

This is more indicative of where one chooses to spend most of their time online.

It applies to HN too, the vast majority of comments probably don't have more than, at most, a few minutes of serious, focused, thinking behind them.

And with how good LLMs nowadays, probably a numerical majority don't even contain anything worth noting.

Re: The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)

#9
Got the opportunity to watch this film on a big screen at a local film festival last week. I think he wrote the whole film around this speech. Also there's this wonderful scene where he(Hynkel) dances with a globe in it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jj-PaqFrBc

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