The Philosophy Now Forum

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat May 23, 2026 7:49 pm

The purity of Hollywood movie fiction is rooted in boy meets girl because in the Golden Age of Hollywood, men undeniably ruled the world, and lust with its variations ruled men.

In The Hollywood movie about WWI, which was about pacifist York meeting reality, they just had to toss in the boy meets girl theme. It was his life dream, his motivating source of energy. His life dream was not to be a killer. Events overwhelmed his plans.

You know, in reality, they gave the guy a ticker tape parade in NYC.
Why did they do that in reality, and why were all the people cheering for York, in reality?
And, what do you think of his simple, Appalachian logic that justified his societal role, and destiny, which was to be A Guardian, along with all its nasty particulars?

Goodness needs guardians, don't you know, because unlike truth goodness is not self-protected.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bQnxlHZsjY

Why do you think truth is self-protected?
The answer does not rely on belief.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat May 23, 2026 7:49 pm Will America ever return to pre-World War II innocence?

Question: When the operations manager read the philosopher's resume, what did he notice?
Answer: No answers, only questions.

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Old school happiness is a reaction to crawling out of the horrors of WWII. The sophisticated disillusionment of the 1920’s, which was pre-cursed by WWI and dada artists of the youth, were left stranded on No Hope Avenue when faced with the Great Depression, which government meddling has been blamed for prolonging in the USofA.

As a principle that transcends generations of hard times, old school happiness lingers on simple things, which is why little children often wonder why grandpa laughs and makes faces.

It was the seventies ...
Some of the relics are still around (60 minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJQ4qEWm9lU

Twelve Angry Men (not nine angry women)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jxVnlRdelU

One man who must convince eleven … men …
With rationality.

Spoiler alert!: It’s the ending of the movie.

If you haven’t seen the movie, skip the link and take the time.

This might be interesting for cult fans.
Soon to be released.

Imagine all the people who said yes … to her.
Not just with words. With big money.

Apple created a techo-cult founded on quality, aka, patrons.

The fraudster used Apple as an inspiration,
but with all flash and no quality.
- All hat and no cattle.
- All promise and no product.
- All pay and no payola.
- All baritone with a siren song

Maybe she’s just a real woman, a talented and misunderstood woman, trying to make her way in a patriarchal society.
Maybe she's counting on a culture that will forgive a woman most anything.

At the end of this clip, she shows that she’s learning how to express herself …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvW_N5p1q44

Unibomber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3tR6qQjbgI

This is a trailer for an interesting movie.

It makes the case that with a psychological experiment funded by "The Agency," Harvard University conditioned the teenaged, childlike Ted Kaczynski (Unibomber) to overcome his innate kindness and allow it to atrophy.

Some of his training dialogues could be mistaken for online forum transcripts.



(He was called the University Bomber at first. Uni.)

(HD) The Shawshank Redemption (Mozart Opera Scene)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjqmg_7J53s

In this case, whether or not the case is historically true, music awakened the savage beast and tamed the caged.