> a serious modern artist who happens to be a pacifist.. begins to move artistically among the scenes of war, his art.. will soon lead to the exploration and expression of his own horror, rage, pain, and devastation. The vegetarian will disclose his own cannibalism, the pacifist his murderousness.. #Guernica does not light up the deed of #Nazi bombers, but the violent soul of #Picasso, brought to a salutary pause.
https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/paul-goodman/1961/designing-pacifist-films.html
#PaulGoodman on #PacifistFilms

> a film must at least not do.. harm by predisposing its audience toward war.. images of senseless violence, horror, and wast.. employed in.. commercially successful #antiwar films.. have a titillating effect and remain in the soul as.. further incitements.. images of horror.. detach themselves from the.. intellectual and ethical framework in which they are.. presented.. they attach themselves to quite different #subliminal ideas
https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/paul-goodman/1961/designing-pacifist-films.html
#PacifistFilms #PaulGoodman

Why some people in #Russia might be concerned about #Nato (Controlled by #Germany and #France more than #Greece I guess, not to mention the #USA ) expanding to their borders... It wasn't just the Nazis that invaded and killed millions before leaving in frozen defeat. #EdwardTufte in #BeautifulEvidence says #Minard made the best #antiwar #poster ever. #PaulGoodman in #PacifistFilms says plain documentaries are good, scenes of extreme bloody cruelty just make us think we all deserve to die...