cultural sickness in the USA

If the USA can save itself--and I doubt that it can--the salvation won't come from the cultural elites, the self-appointed arbiters of good taste....

such as those at http://www.filmmovement.com/

I've just seen a beautiful film, "La Grand Voyage", about the journey of a young
French man with his father to Mecca...

And for some reason, the creators of this physical entity, this dvd, felt it necessary
to add an infinitely inferior creation to the dvd ---not a bad five-minute film on its own, but in this context
a nasty piece of propaganda.....as the five minute film made reference to the terrorist attack
in New York City...

Put differently, a marvelous film had to be packaged with something which satisfied a certain narrow political outlook--HOW VERY LIKE COMMUNISM! As a friend at the Academy of Science in Slovakia once told me: It was no problem to publish philosophy during communism. The historical classics got published with prefaces telling how Marx was right about everything, and then you could publish the original historical text unedited.

The people at "Filmmovement" have done exactly the same thing with this beautiful film!

More and more, every day, how much USA culture is like communism!!!

That five minute short has nothing to do with the film "La Grand Voyage". Indeed, you could say that the point
of that film is that Islam is not about terrorism...... but even that would be unfair. The film is about an older man and his young son.....and the young son is a child of an immigrant--the older man.....

But the great aesthetes at "filmmovement' either don't see it that way, or they thought
themselves clever in kow-towing to the most ignorant elements of society....

I'd like to insert a quote from Nietzsche at this point. Only a genius of his caliber would be able to adequately express the disgust and recoil which this sort of perversion deserves.