I'm not sure what you are disagreeing with, since I'm not aware that I alluded to stripping the world of Divine anger. I rather alluded to the fact that dehumanisation of anthropomorphic figures is a universal prelude to atrocity, and is perhaps one of the most dangerous mental steps that we can take, whether as a group or in individual action.
"It is as if to say: This is all that I, as Savìour, have come to do." If those were the words used, I would certainly condemn them. But they were not, and I do not share that interpretation of the actual dialogue. I suspect that that difference in our interpretations is key.
The line you quote from "We are the World" prevented me from liking the song. I understand your misgivings with regard to the movie, but again do not quite share them. You sound fairly firm in your conviction that the changed stemmed from ignorance- what is the basis of that conviction?
I think that my major problem with your thesis is that I think that your argument is well-founded, but fundamentally subjective, personal, and interpretative. As such, I have problems in taking it to be more widely definitive, and I am certainly reluctant to speculate as to the mindset of the film-makers on that basis.
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Date: 2005-12-22 09:06 am (UTC)"It is as if to say: This is all that I, as Savìour, have come to do."
If those were the words used, I would certainly condemn them. But they were not, and I do not share that interpretation of the actual dialogue. I suspect that that difference in our interpretations is key.
The line you quote from "We are the World" prevented me from liking the song. I understand your misgivings with regard to the movie, but again do not quite share them. You sound fairly firm in your conviction that the changed stemmed from ignorance- what is the basis of that conviction?
I think that my major problem with your thesis is that I think that your argument is well-founded, but fundamentally subjective, personal, and interpretative. As such, I have problems in taking it to be more widely definitive, and I am certainly reluctant to speculate as to the mindset of the film-makers on that basis.