Saturday, February 21, 2009

The Great Dictator...



Who knew that Charlie Chaplin was epic? This is an unbelievable and profound message by a comedian who almost never spoke. Charlie Chaplin made this in 1940. He had identified the true evils of the Nazi regime before America ever decided to do anything about it. He showed us that the injustice was not entirely in the deaths that were being caused, but it was in the dehumanization of everyone involved. The Nazi's themselves were being dehumanized by their machine-like devotion and the things that they were forced to do. At the same time of course there was dehumanization of the people that were oppressed by Hitler and his regime. This video is just wonderful. I had to pass it along...Grace and Peace.

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