Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Why The Past Matters" video.

@krausewitz6786 History doesn't repeat. But it does rhyme.
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That was before Picard went senile.
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@michaelstfort Nobody's stopping anybody from getting a copy of "Mein Kampf" uncensored. But "Gone with the Wind" is something else, entirely. But you're correct. Art has always been intertwined with politics and usually the only people who could pay for it were the ruling-class elites, unless you're talking about folk art. And I would be remiss if I left out the Church in the production of all those old masterpieces. That being said, when the elites start CENSORING art, we're regressing to an earlier, less enlightened time and/or place. And honestly, it's a hate crime to censor Darryl Hannah's ass in "Splash." It's downright heretical! And here on a movie critic's channel, we're criticizing the direction art is taking.
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@arthurfranklin9315 Yes. A good chunk of it is who agrees or disagrees with the message sent by the art. As an American who's been around for awhile, the social messaging has been non-stop for over 50 years. It's shifted over time, but the underlying theme is you are bombarded by whatever bullshit the rich and powerful want you to be bombarded by. You don't see anything on t.v. complaining that cars and phones aren't built to last 20 years. I want my pickup(s) to last a lifetime! Think of the good we'd do the planet if we just changed those two things... But it'll never come up. Now they're gonna try and make us all buy the electric cars, even though they REALLY dirty up the planet, and will restrict our movements. There's more money for the establishment in consumerism and less for us who are caught on the wheel of always having to buy the latest-greatest. And how many women wouldn't be caught dead at a formal dinner in last year's dress? Right now it's Big Pharma's turn. Next, it'll be Big Oil, who'll make sure they're first in line for solar-panel production and any subsidies for Green Tech. They'll have the money to get into it in a big way, and they'll all think of the next thing to distract us to extract from us. And reducing pollution is the last thing on their minds. They'll just call attention to the kinds they can make the most money off of.
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It took about 30 years from the time we fought for free speech during Vietnam for the same free-speech crowd to decide to start censoring everything. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Same Puritanical mindset, just under a different banner, today.
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@tommymarco A rational and open-minded person will never prevail against an irrational member of the mob. You're smart enough to entertain doubts. They are not, and that's how they get you.
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@tommymarco Sadly, the TRUE left is represented by enlightenment values of 3 centuries ago, when we first came to the realization that seeking the "protection" of lords and ladies was a bad idea. Now, that is considered "far right," and the ORIGINAL conservatism of state control and absolute power of ruling-class elites is wrongly termed "left." The so-called "left" wants nothing more or less than a return to serfdom. The original Bolshevik Revolution in Russia wasn't to END serfdom. It was just to change masters!
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@Powermad-bu4em I'll probably find a comment by me farther down, at some point, here. But it just came up in my feed, today, almost 20 months later, and it's still pretty fresh. So maybe it'll make the rounds, again. Drinker's bigger now than he was in January, 2020.
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@JohnSmith-is4uu Yes. When this happened in Germany, 90 years ago, godawful sanitized Nazi entertainment was the least of Europe's worries!
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And yet, the great Renaissance masterpieces were pretty much sponsored by the aristocracy and included NOTHING hostile to the ruling class. The Medici clan were some of the worst of the worst, and they were the leading patrons of the arts in their day.
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