The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)

Post by spacebacon » Sat, Dec 23, 2023, 4:30 AM UTC

jncfhnb wrote: post #381

hermitcrab wrote: post #378

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But was it regarded as virtuous?

The evidence that it was seen as virtuous seems equally plentiful for the past as the present

However there is a difference in being seen as virtuous and actually being virtuous.

Few men reach a point of actual virtue in private and secret life. Many more men cleverly signal virtue in their public life yet retreat to vice in private and secret life.

The back bone required to actually be virtuous must be strong enough to stand against any wind in the event all laws of man were laid flat.

True virtue (I assume and make no claim to having it here) may possibly only exist in doing the right thing while answering to no authority while serving no system and while receiving no recognition or comfort of a superiors approval.

Post by keepamovin » Sun, Dec 31, 2023, 1:44 PM UTC

mock-possum wrote: post #376

keepamovin wrote: post #323

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> surely the mindful decision is empathetic, constructive, and wise - not just base. As your heart is, if you listen to it. Listening to your heart is different to compulsive thoughts or reactions; getting swept up in a mass hysteria of the times; or a spasm that can tear through a crowd. These types of revolutions, or crowd motions, are more often based on intense intellectual ideas and expressions of subconscious m…

“They say home is where the heart is / but what a shame / that everybody’s heart / doesn’t beat the same.”

Mm, from Green Day. The actual quote seems to suggest the opposite^0, but that's OK, I think you mean you hesitate to follow your heart because you're afraid you'll be labelled as "irrational" -- or disagreeable! haha -- (and you don't want people to think that about you); and you don't yet trust it.

But when you do (trust it -- your heart), you can trust that it will lead you, the right way for you! :)

I guess a more literal reading is it's sad that not everyone is in love and in sync, emotionally and mentally, but...you know...as long as no one's hurting each other, that great diversity is the spice of life!

But if you're against that? I don't know: you got to respect other people's different feelings.

Thanks for sharing that bit of you. Beautiful. I appreciate it! :)

Happy New Year! :)

0: (definitely more an expression of a personal angst and disillusionment by Green Day than anything about the actual reality of the world): At the center of the Earth, in the parkin' lot // Of the 7-Eleven where I was taught // The motto was just a lie // It says "home is where your heart is," but what a shame // 'Cause everyone's heart doesn't beat the same // It's beating out of time

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