The reason dear Arthur is because Hollywood is
commerce and a poor place to look for your images. If you want to
look then look in Shakespeare (Iago) or better still you would have to listen to
that great businessman Cornel McNeil sing Verdi's Iago with the kind of
casualness that Hannson had when he said "what took you so
long." Or you could look to Eugene O'Neil or to Shaffer's
Equis.
Good theater and opera will give you the
banality of evil while the movies make the villians too stupid for anyone to
follow them (who would understand Hitler from the Western press or
movies? That is why our allies seem to be following the people
they despise and thus compromise their morals and
principles) who would follow them, or be fooled by
them, except the dumb movie heros like that draft dodger John
Wayne. Movies are commerce, the theater is
Art.
What else would you expect from retail
minds? If you want a good villian look to American history
with the likes of Andrew Jackson or his genocidal Secretary of War Lewis Cass
who coined the phrase Hunter Gatherer for the people who were as cultivated as
his own but who possessed what he could not achieve (real culture).
Then there was the wealthy man Henry Dawes the old Robber Baron with his "Apple"
Curtis who later became Hoover's VP. He was a corrupt
politician who was as bland as McNeil's Iago and who followed the fool's edict
"to thine own self be true" and sold his birthright for a cup of soup just like
Maslow.
Regards,
Ray Evans Harrell
Arthur you replied to Brad:
> I too am sure that I have seen
Hannsen somewhere. He really is everyman.> Why can't he look like the spies that Hollywood has crafted for us??
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 7:18 AM
> To: Ray Evans Harrell
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Christoph Reuss
> Subject: Re: If you don't advertise, you don't exist
>
>
> Ray Evans Harrell wrote:
> >
> > So why has Capitalism had a bad week but not Catholicism?
> [snip]
>
> I hope this does not refer to my posting.
>
> I did not mean to define an "exclusive club". In cyberspace,
> we can easily make enough copies the shoes to shod all the feet that
> fit them.
>
> Every time I see the "stock" photo of Mr. Hannsen, I get a
> creepy feeling that I either did or should have seen him
> somewhere in IBM. Mr. Hannsen looks *so* *very* "straight arrow"
> middle-class middle-American raised-ranch
> Yorktown Heights (where, in fact, he did live...) middle-management.
>
> And, as for the Roman Catholic Church, can any of us
> imagine what would be happening if the Church still
> had the power it disposed over in its Heyday?
>
> I was placing the baby in her high-chair yesterday, and
> I was thinking that surely our Pope has someone to
> put him in his high-chair and hand-feed him.
>
> Please, do not accuse me of being incomprehensive in
> criticizing persons or institutions! But I am not
> Argus-eyes, and so sometimes I talk about one or
> another but not all at once [Husserl called this
> the directedness of intentionality, i.e., that I
> entertain in thought only one "thing" at a time...].
>
> Have a happy Christian-sabbath (which need have no
> more "light" in it than any other religion's sabbath),
> and even though it's called *Sun*day, expose your
> skin only to the moon lest you court melanoma.
>
> \brad mccormick
>
> --
> Let your light so shine before men,
> that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
>
> Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
>
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