"Exterminate
all the Brutes" by Raoul Peck--HBO. This is the greatest documentary on the etiology of
man's brutality including genocide that I have ever seen. I sat for 4
hours straight as I watched the four parts in their entirety. It rather makes me want to join an antiFascist group. It is
so poignant, revelatory and true. It even includes my once online friend
and BU professor Howard Zinn and his "A People's History of the United States." Peck
loves the late Howard Zinn too. It gives a black eye literally to the notion of
American exceptionalism and tells the truth of western civilization's
contribution to early colonialism, the massacre of indigenous people all
around the world and the violence of white supremacy. It kicks that swine president Trail of Tears
initiator Andrew Jackson -- you know the picture that Donald DUMP had of
him in the oval office -- into oblivion.
It
left me mentally exhausted and sad but better informed as it goes into
the not-so-glorious western civilization, the Holocaust and
Auschwitz in detail I had never seen before and I thought I had seen
them all. Make America Great again but he asks when was it ever great.
And yet how did other civilizations that have accumulated wealth and
power act over centuries? He goes into that too.
To me it asks the question: is
mankind doomed? Watching the January 6 invasion of the Capitol by
American Fascists like the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys and the Charlotte
march of Nazis saying "Jews will not replace us" one can see that a Fascist state
here and around the world in other nations is possible -- god forbid!
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