Friday, March 20, 2015

The German Revolution



                                                      The German Revolution


      
  In the second essay, "What Does the Spartacus League Want," written in December 1918 only a month before she was murdered , she lays out the goals of the doomed revolutionary movement. Again she stresses the importance of experience for the development of the masses, and again returns to the ideas of spontaneity and organization:

From dead machines assigned their place in production by capital, the proletarian masses must learn to transform themselves into the free and independent directors of this process. They have to acquire the feeling of responsibility proper to active members of the collectivity which alone possesses ownership of all social wealth. They have to develop industriousness without the capitalist whip, the highest productivity without slave drivers, discipline without the yoke, order without authority. The highest idealism in the interest of the collectivity, the strictest self-discipline, the truest public spirit of the masses are the moral foundations of socialist society, just as stupidity, egotism, and corruption are the moral foundations of capitalist society.
   I chose this passage because it describes today's world to a T. This whole corrupt system with the rich ruling and contradicting themselves on their so called compassion for the lower and middle class. Not only do they promise the babies of this country a good life for fighting for their country. But, with in their reasoning behind why these children are fighting and dying due to their, lies, greed and deceit, the ones who do make it out realize that all they were promised were a mere lie! 
   This is our what country have been doing to our youth. Great example; the twin towers. No other country had a thing to do with the collapse of those three towers. Yes I said three. Because if anyone has done their research on the collapse they would have learned what really happened. But, here we go again! The capitalist want what is not theirs for the taking. America is basically out of natural recourses and that also explains why they made it their priority to proclaim such concern for Cuba. Compared to much of the known lands by America, Cuba is like a virgin and, that man named the United States of America wants her more than ever.  
   This passage would make me go on forever but, think about this, this did not just come about. They have been raping, riches, youth, societies, intellect and races, from the beginning of time. It's now the question of what are we the 99 percent going to do about it? 

Saturday, March 14, 2015

M




       In the movie M I chose the scene where the little girl asked the old man for the time. The whole town around him went crazy asking him what he wanted with that little girl. It is as if time may change with material things but, people with our stinking thinking doesn't. When things bad happen everyone want's  resolution but, then that makes the most kindest person a suspect.

Sunday, March 8, 2015

Nihilism in Germany

      


       "It's all a swindle"

Papa swindles

Mama Swindles

Grand mama's a lying thief

We're perfectly shameless

But we're blameless

after all it's our belief

Nowadays the world is rotten

honesty has been forgotten

Fall in love but after kissing

check your purse to see what's missing

Everyone swindles some

My son's a mooch and so's the pooch

"Alles Swindel"

Papa schwindelt

Mama schwindelt,

tut sie auf blob ihren mund!

tante otillie

und de famillie

und sogar der kleine Hund!

und besieht man's aus der Nahe:

Jedes band und jede Ehe

Jedes kub in dern Betriebe

und sogar die grobe Liebe!

undie ganze heut'ge zeit Ja,

sogar die Ehrilchkeit.


       "No Time


Nowadays, a person doesn't have a second to spare.

yet many even think the pace is too slow.


       "Keine Zeit


Man laesst sich weit und breit heut

nicht mehr sehunde zeit heut.

Es geht im Gegenteil uns noch zu Langsam fast.



                                                               "My Interpretation of Both Songs"


     As for "It's all a swindle", I chose the first verse of the lyric's because it explains the life of the

people in that county at that time. It is apparent that everyone swindles to get by, to survive. Not only

is it the way of life there but, it seems to have been taught through generations as a means of survival.

Even grandmamma is a lying thief. This is also an example of what they chosen of what the

government has given them.


     As for "No Time", I chose this particular verse because no one has a second to spare and, they are

always in what I call the hurry up and wait mode. Therefore morals, values of people have been

reduced to practically nothing. People don't even have time for family anymore.



                                                                              "Paragraph 175"


    This paragraph I thought relates to this lecture with the remembrance of morals and values in mind.

This lecture talks about the two along with it's changing with time. This change has affected the two

and, that is why paragraph 175 has been modified. Just as today where now same sex marriage is

legal. I will use the blue angel's professor as an example; He was a man of professed morals in a

changing society. Lola was basically down for whatever and, he allowed her to take him where he

 to a point in his life where he could not have imagined ever being.
  
     He had lost what ever morals he had and his values by the mere clucking like a chicken at his

wedding dinner for the acceptance of those around him. As time went on laws like paragraph 175

were conformed to accommodate what was forbidden pleasures in the professor's time.





The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

LEH 355

Friday, February 27, 2015

The cabinet of Dr. Caligari

                                                          The cabinet of Dr. Caligari


    As I watched the short film which depicted the story read from the lecture, I chose the scene when
the Supposed doctor Caligari went mad because his subject of use had died. I chose this scene
 not only because it reminds me of the many dreams and philosophies that many human beings
may have, be them normal or abnormal but, the fact that  to everyone of them they are valid. In my
saying this, is relative to this course in a way of what nihilism can represent along with the previous
lectures. All people seek that something, be it God, idols or, self as that one true guide in life. This
story to me, reminded me of the philosophers previously discussed in these lectures and the stories
told by those who either were seeking truth, thought they knew the true path or, felt that nothing
mattered but the present. Some as the supposed Caligari went mad in their quest in search of the truth
and, some as the real Caligari in the story, were the real culprits behind others wanting to follow their
paths or be like them. This is the  reason why in today's world I use Isis as an example of those who
are playing that game called follow the leader. Every philosopher believes their philosophy is the
the truth while everyone has lived a story.