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Palo Alto, California

A poster below brings up Gone with the Wind to argue that we can't apply
modern sensibilities to historical works of art. He's right, but only to a
point. Gone with the Wind is a work of art, and it's great entertainment, but
it's also propaganda for the Lost Cause narrative, just as Mitchell's novel
was. It explicitly portrays slavery as benign, African Americans as childlike,
and Reconstruction as a brutal tyranny imposed upon a righteous people.
Although the movie delicately obscures the issue, the novel portrays the Klan
as a force for justice against vicious black rapists.

This is no argument for censorship. The movie remains one of the greatest
films ever made, and the book is still an entertaining potboiler. We can
continue to appreciate them as art and as entertainment, but we should think
about them as we enjoy them. Art can be just as political as any other human
enterprise, and as such, it invites moral scrutiny.

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Sehr poetisch. Ein Drachen, der nicht fliegen will. Eine ganz andere Art von Drachensaat: ein friedlicher Drachen, an den man gerne zurückdenkt. Auch die nicht flugfähigen Gedanken sind einem lieb und teuer. Andere starten zu Gedankenflügen - ganz spektakulär. Besinnlicher Text.

Schöne Erinnerung an eine Zeit, die unbeschwert war. Es hallt nach und weckt eigene Gedanken an früher :-)
LG, Xx PP

Eine wundervolle Erinnerung!!!
LG Manuela

Ein wunderbarer, poetischer Text. Hat mir sehr gut gefallen.