We have lost the way.

Most who have seen this have forgotten.



Just a reminder to everyone!

Your life is not somebody elses to lead


For those without the ability to view, it is:
Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator Speech

a reply to: Silicis n Volvo
Thank you for this most timely post, and I concur wholeheartedly!

If I may add to your thread, two quotes from one of my favourite old movies, "Lost Horizon" that I feel is apropos to the topic at hand.

It is very common here to live to a very ripe old age. Climate, diet - the mountain water you might say. But we like to believe it's the absence of struggle in the way we live. In your countries, on the over hand, how often do you hear the expression, "He worried himself to death", or "This thing or that thing on that killed him".

Your lives are, as a rule, shorter. Not so much by natural death, as by indirect suicide.

It is the entire meaning and purpose of Shangri-La. It came to me in a vision, long, long ago. I saw all the nations strengthening; not in wisdom, but in the vulgar passions and the will to destroy. I saw the machine power multiplying, until a single weaponed man might match a whole army. I foresaw a time when man, exalting in the technique of murder, would rage so hotly over the world, that every book, every treasure, would be doomed to destruction. This vision was so vivid and so moving, that I determined to gather together all things of beauty and of culture that I could, and preserve them here, against the doom toward which the world is rushing.

Look at the world today. Is there anything more pitiful? What madness there is! What blindness! What unintelligent leadership! A scurrying mass of bewildered humanity, crashing headlong against each other; propelled by an orgy of greed and brutality. A time must come my friend, when this orgy will spend itself. When brutality and the lust for power must perish by its own sword. Against that time, is why I avoided death, and am here. And why you were brought here. For when that day comes, the world must begin to look for a new life. And it is our hope that they may find it here. For here, we shall be with their books and their music, and a way of life based on one simple rule: Be Kind! When that day comes, it is our hope that the brotherly love of Shangri-La will spread throughout the world.

Lost Horizon - 1937

May we remember before it is too late.

a reply to: Silicis n Volvo

On average I listen to this speech at least once a week. It is still as moving to me now as it was when I first heard it.

Thanks for posting.

I had never seen this. Tyty!

a reply to: Iamthatbish

I'm glad at least one more person has seen it

a reply to: kelbtalfenek

It's as relevant today as it was 74 years ago and still fills me with emotion every time I see it. I wish people would come together to stand up and say enough is enough.