Sorry to drift off track ES! Too bad your lottery number came up in the small town of superinvestors! :shock:Better git yer Halloween costume on quick or at least some dark shades
Salaryguru: I wonder why only a minority of the populous learns what you noted, and meanwhile far too often it is those who consider themselves "religious types," do not get it? Is it that one must go through certain youthful experiences as a child or are some of us wired to understand these things better? As a kid I was unusually empathic and sensitive of others if they were being ill treated, likely I empathized with them since I knew what being the underdog felt like, having experienced daily bullying by my older brother and also physically and mentally abused by my mom.
I beleive that my upbringing also taught me to quickly sense that some of the town elders, a "pious" elderly baptist "church-lady" babysitter who took care of us at times, and also a few nuns in Saturday catechism, pious they were, but loving, they were not. Even at seven I sensed these peoples' lessons were hypocritical, as they threateningly expressed that eternal violence would be the wrath imposed upon any child who did not admit membership in the same religious group that they belonged. Membership, they seemed to think, was more important than a person's actions. At seven, I sensed that they missed the main point of their own religion's core ethic; love and forgiveness. (Yeah, I think Jesus wanted people to be liberal-minded, flexible, forgiving, tolerant of others different ways and to love thy neighbor as thyself). Then again, maybe a lot of people have a lot of inner hate for themselves, and they hate thy neighbors as they hate themselves!!!!....hmmmmmmmmmmmm
Regarding old movies, two other influential flicks taught in the 1960s were
Ambrose Bierce's: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and
Holling Clancy Holling's; "Paddle to the Sea," in which an Inuit boy carved the inscription " put me back in the water," on a tiny hand carved wooden boat, and sent it away on a great journey. That tale made me wish to go on a similar adventure.
I was able to purchase the children's original book "Paddle to the sea" from Amazon, but have yet to stir up the movie. I have not yet seen "Paddle to the Sea" nor
"The Lottery" posted on any bittorrent sites either. I'd love to watch them again to see how far my memory has drifted.
I do have a copy of "Green Eyes, Blue Eyes, where a teacher divides the average white middle class American children by eye color and for one day makes one group the upper class, and another day switches which group is in power. Oddly enough, the children became convinced that the other group was lazy, deceitful and overall lower on the human totem pole, which of course switches later on and the top group becomes the oppressed group. It really showed how easily racism is learned and adopted.
I am the one with the sandwich board on which is written in red letters, "I haven't the foggiest notion what I am talking about."