Thanks for the discussion on "Origins of Totalitarianism" here, and the lead to Samantha Rose Hill. Related, I think (and with clear acknowledgement that I've got Lord Huron's "Lonesome Pine" on the turntable), I just plugged the DVD of "The Post" into the player night before last, and was struck that while Katharine Graham and Ben Bradlee were both, superficially, playing the roles of owner and editor of a paper just trying to stay in business - the undercurrent, brought literally out of 'Nam by Daniel Ellsberg, who'd seen first-hand what was "going on", was that an entirely corrupted process of governance was completely contaminating the discussion of what "This war is all about". Seeing the portrayal of a comfortable establishment scene in DC of how 'things get done' suddenly come in conflict with the lying and implicit threats to "the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality—whatever it may be", and then doing something about it was more jarring to me now than it was then- and then I was just 13 draft numbers from being called up. Thanks for this.
Thanks for the discussion on "Origins of Totalitarianism" here, and the lead to Samantha Rose Hill. Related, I think (and with clear acknowledgement that I've got Lord Huron's "Lonesome Pine" on the turntable), I just plugged the DVD of "The Post" into the player night before last, and was struck that while Katharine Graham and Ben Bradlee were both, superficially, playing the roles of owner and editor of a paper just trying to stay in business - the undercurrent, brought literally out of 'Nam by Daniel Ellsberg, who'd seen first-hand what was "going on", was that an entirely corrupted process of governance was completely contaminating the discussion of what "This war is all about". Seeing the portrayal of a comfortable establishment scene in DC of how 'things get done' suddenly come in conflict with the lying and implicit threats to "the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality—whatever it may be", and then doing something about it was more jarring to me now than it was then- and then I was just 13 draft numbers from being called up. Thanks for this.