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THE FLYING ISLAND PLUMMETED INTO THE SKY OF OBLIVION

JOHN WAYNE — ISLAND IN THE SKY — 1953

That was a time when the cinema thought they had to educate the masses of ignorant and hardly literate people in the world by showing them what courage and stamina were from an American point of view. And to make sure they got the proper ideas and the right impressions, they doubled up the visual and visible action with an unbearable voice-over, the voice-over of Free America.

The film might have been slightly more able to survive special effects and modern digitized technology, the time of the robots, as Melania Trump would say, if they had used the camera as being the teacher selecting actions and scenes to demonstrate what courage means in the flesh and in the minds of the five people stranded in the iced vastness of the Great North of Greenland or Canada.

But in 1953, under the pressure of a certain McCarthy against the communist influence in Hollywood, even accusing Charlie Chaplin of being a Soviet puppet, it was impossible for the new generations of average artists who had taken over the whole apparatus of Hollywood studios to see beyond the tip of their noses, and I say noses to remain polite. They favored the good old pedagogy of repeating some mottoes and then having the audience repeat them together like mantras with a prayer mill.

That was without considering the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylman, Joan Baez, Jimi Hendrix, and so many more who used their words to open our eyes onto the world seen from an existential point of view, from a heartfelt and mindful and serenely meditative vista that spoke to the deepest self of the audience, the whole audience in the whole world. We would say today, the global audience.

One of the rare artists from this generation of anti-communist and pro-capitalistic B-Series artists will survive oblivion because he managed to be elected President of the USA for two terms. That was after the defeat in Vietnam, which proved that the repetitive recording plugged into your ears while sleeping, like in A Brave New World,did not work at all. Reagan was a mediocre actor on the screen, but he was a perfect actor for the White House.

God Bless All The Children! Born in that new age, they had to be ready for the new wars of the future in Ukraine, in Gaza, in Sudan, and in some other places. They were self-centered enough, illiterate enough too, as swift as a smartphone with an AI in its microchips to be oblivious of the simple fact that the dogs barking next door were simply being tortured into death by some genocidal, tyrannical minds. They continue every day listening to their smartphonic voices that tell them the world is finally at peace and happy. Amen. Do not forget the “Amen” of “In God We, The People, Trust.”

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You can't survive a traumatic catastrophe if you do not stick to the group and its leader

THE FLYING ISLAND PLUMMETED INTO THE SKY OF OBLIVION

by Jacques Coulardeau

2025 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

4 Pages

Survival Analysis, * Aviation, * Courage, * Polar Climate, * Lost Space, * Silent and Oral Reading Stamina

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Leadership and Identity Based On Subjective Solidarity

We cannot separate ourselves from our own subjectivity. As such, we know ourselves through the subjective lens that we inherently have, and with the same lens assign how we want to be known. However, despite the claim that we alone can determine who we are, we cannot have an impact without associating ourselves with people who are like us. (Photo Credit: pixabay.com) Associating with people who…