TERROR, on YOUTUBE!

[missweirdness.livejournal.com]

Yeah, i guess what i found on youtube?

That dreadful Terror! Robespierre and the french revolution..

here's the link -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcZxrb_L0_M

part 1 of 9, hahahah

enjoy =O

 

 and apparently the emo GUY is ST. JUST! GASP!

 

I'm watching now..=( 

now discuss!

 

 

Comments

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

It's certainly not. But then, they keep on making up quotes that Saint-Just never said in English (like that one with the liberty bedded on corpses... or, I don't want to remember it okay) and, like Sophie Wahnich said in her essay on terrorism, they even quoted (in French however) something from Büchner (in which he compares the revolution to the plague -- which is a quite Thermidorian image indeed -- LIKE ALL THE MACABRE IMAGES ANYWAY) and historically attributed it to him.

Also, I must rant, did you see the comment right after victoriavandal's on the first part on youtube? Some idiot calls it "an honest, thought-provoking progressive critique". Schama. Progressive? With all the sophisms and false representations constructed by our so very modern speech, we're not far from totalitarism, as someone said in the comments, indeed.

[(Anonymous)]

After all, Schama is openly defending cynism and corruption and condemning idealism as potentially totalitarian. So why not to manipulate a couple of quotes? If you point out to it, you are probably a fundamentalist who claims there is only one Truth and thus a potential Hitler :-D Sibylla

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

I've seen the defense of corruption already: last year (all those things are always so recent), there was an essay published in France by a psychanalyst, Marie-Laure Susini, who wrote an "éloge de la corruption" in which she copies Gallo's most ridiculous psycho-historical delirium to bash Robespierre as "the voice of the superego" and calls his incorruptibility (or all incorruptibility in general) a totalitarian trait, because obviously it aims at an impossible purity, of something ridiculous like that which echoes the so-called "fatal purity" once more. As for the defense of cynicism, that dates back to Wajda all right. I've never seen so much ideological manipulation of history used to denounce the totalitarian ideological manipulation of history! (Well, that is, until that BBC docudrama!) I don't know why the speakers of such destructive ideologies, which are directly responsible for the threat that is actually coming upon us -- and no, it's really not communism! -- are still given such a leading space. How long will that last still? And when will the generational overthrow happen?

[(Anonymous)]

And the consequence of this distrust of virtue and praise of the corruption is that we get the government we deserve, composed of those who become politicians in order to change laws so they don't get to prison, who use our taxes to pay prostitutes for themselves and their guests, who are convinced that using the politics to promote the interests of those who give big money for their electoral campagnes is perfectly legitimate, even if it means dragging a country to war etc.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

I remember that. D:< They think people will buy anything they want to cram down their throats...

...which, it seems, they will. I gave that commenter a thumbs-down, for all the good it will do. >.>