There are MORE storytellers like you, than you think. There are KEEPERS of the truth (books, films, papers and others materials) than you think. TRUTH has a way of way of “surviving” and remaining “relevant”.
1) There was a shortlived Indiana Jones television series which was far more popular in Europe than the United States. It was somewhat less action oriented- a hair more thoughtful conversation than the movies, and far more overtly(!) politically progressive than any of the films. Wonder if this was why it resonated more with European audiences.
2a) I have previously noted to you that the only two pop culture icons who prior to the 1960s civil rights movement tangled with the Ku Klux Klan were Sherlock Holmes (the 1891 short story "The Five Orange Pips") and Superman (the 1946 radio play "Clan of the Fiery Cross")
2b) Prior to America's entrance into World War II after Pearl Harbor, American film studios were heavily discouraged both by members of Congress and by film moguls from making any films critical of Nazis. The only two film-makers to defy this edict were Charlie Chaplin ("The Great Dictator") and the Three Stooges ("You Nazty Spy!" and its sequel "I'll Never Heil Again"). The latter made a couple of more anti-Nazi shorts after December 1941.
There are MORE storytellers like you, than you think. There are KEEPERS of the truth (books, films, papers and others materials) than you think. TRUTH has a way of way of “surviving” and remaining “relevant”.
The retention of power is all the regime wants. They don’t care what destruction they wreak, it has to culminate in their retention of power.
Two notes.
1) There was a shortlived Indiana Jones television series which was far more popular in Europe than the United States. It was somewhat less action oriented- a hair more thoughtful conversation than the movies, and far more overtly(!) politically progressive than any of the films. Wonder if this was why it resonated more with European audiences.
2a) I have previously noted to you that the only two pop culture icons who prior to the 1960s civil rights movement tangled with the Ku Klux Klan were Sherlock Holmes (the 1891 short story "The Five Orange Pips") and Superman (the 1946 radio play "Clan of the Fiery Cross")
2b) Prior to America's entrance into World War II after Pearl Harbor, American film studios were heavily discouraged both by members of Congress and by film moguls from making any films critical of Nazis. The only two film-makers to defy this edict were Charlie Chaplin ("The Great Dictator") and the Three Stooges ("You Nazty Spy!" and its sequel "I'll Never Heil Again"). The latter made a couple of more anti-Nazi shorts after December 1941.