On Sunday, December 16, 2012 8:02:49 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: > > On 12/16/2012 7:27 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > What about all of the other possible theories of history? >> > > This series isn't a theory, it's just recent US history focusing on the > deeper background of the people involved. He shows how even the generals > disagreed with Truman that dropping the A-Bombs was necessary, how the > Russians did the bulk of the fighting against the Nazis (they lost like > 23,000,000 people to our 418,500 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties). Which is ironic > considering that right wingers now try to claim that Hitler was some kind > of Marxist (of course the opposite is true). > > > >> What makes Stone's theory any more credible than my own? Is it because he >> is famous? Famous people are well known to be just as wrong as any one else. >> > > There's no theory. Watch the series sometime. > > Craig, > > My point is that there is no such a thing as an objective account of > history. >
Of course. Oliver Stone pretty much says that too. > Any account of the history of the world, where many people and things are > involved in many processes at many diverse levels, will be biased because > one can only take a point of view that generates an integrates "sense". The > universe is not simple and we should never expect that any simple narative > of it is "the whole story". > > Oliver Stone is an artist, not a divine teller of truths. Stop the > idolatry, please. > Who is idolazing? I'd give the show a B+ to B most of the time. It's not perfect, but it's got a lot of things in there that I had vaguely swimming around in my mind put into a timeline-episode context that makes it easier to think about. For the record, I's say that Stone's stuff is merely adequate a lot of the time. He's no Kubrick, but he tries hard and I believe he thinks he's being honest. Craig > > -- > Onward! > > Stephen > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/LQXktT7FjsgJ. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
