Day: December 9, 2022

This movie was not what I had expected when I heard about the premise but I enjoyed it still. It made several statements on the political nature of leadership in the modern day. As well as the dynamic of power between countries. 

It was a funny movie that also brought up the nature of a dictatorship that in the modern day may be hard to compare to Hitler’s. In small parts of the movie you can’t help but wonder the comparisons and the power Hitler held and how it is similar to the dictator Gen. Aladeen.

The first time I had seen Jesus Christ Superstar it was a remake with Sara Barflies and John Legend and I didn’t really care or try to understand what was going on. Now that I understand the premise and was actually interested in the play it follows the readings in class well, the backlash Andrew Lloyd Weber got for the musical makes sense. While it is great and entertaining, it follows the themes of the text how Judas and Mary were closer to Jesus and how he wasn’t a hero in the eyes of everyone leading up to Judas’ betrayal. 

This text shows the imapct the war had on Russia and it’s people, as well as the younger population. We have all heard the saying history is written by the winners but this book kind of proves that. After the war Russia taught their children what was in this book, some of it is correct but some of it is also straight up wrong. Just making their country look better to their people.

It also brings up the point of how we tell history after it’s happened. History is created when there are no first had accounts left to hear. Sure, today we still have WWII veterans alive, but once they die, the stories of the war truly become history to be preserved in museums. Leaving it up to the people to decide the importance of the history of a singular event, as well as how we educate the future generations.

Written by William Luther Pierce, The Turner Diaries covers the story of Earl Turner in a violent revolution. It depicts a world set in the near future of 1978, where Earl Turner is a hero in a world taken over by minorities, where the government is run by the entire jewish population. Throughout the book, Turner describes what happened and how the actions of different groups of people led to it, demonizing minority groups of society as he goes along. Ultimately leading to Day of the Rope in which he Is painted a hero for saving the country. 

A focus in the book was an authoritarian government which we had connected to 1984. The point made in the book is one of a controlling and authoritarian democracy that is wrong for the people, but in The Turner Diaries, a noticeable difference is that the government still operates under the guise of a democracy. 

The Industrial Society and its Future was one of the more interesting forbidden texts I have read in the class so far. I am a fan of tru crime documentaries and podcasts, so going into the topic I had already seen something on Netflix about a year ago that gives some background information. Even then reading the texts itself was odd. It provides a view on the dangers of a technological world, that are somewhat correct. Looking at where we are today, Kaczynski wasn’t wrong when he predicted how our society would become so dependent on technology that it is now irreversible. 

I intend to make the psychology behind the Unabomber my final research topic so having done some research, the level of intelligence he has in connection to what he believes is weird to see. Even today, from prison he still advocates for what he believes in, commending green anarchists and even publishing a second book.