A remark: the comment of Schloendorff at 5:07 which compares Hitler to Wilder(s) (as far as I can distinguish from the audio) is at best preposterous and misinformed. Pity that the Dutch/Flemish participant did not comment on it to sharpen the discussion.
The only intelligent things here are said by MacMillan and Schloendorff. Patapievici with his invocation of the "soul" (he is probably intoxicated by Berdiaev or Tolstoy?) is a dreadful windbag. As if the SS officers did not listen to Beethoven with "soul". They did it too much and too well! The Holocaust perpetrated by one of the most advanced civilisations on the planet remains a mystery and desaster of human morality, and no cheap appeals to "humanism" will explain it. Think harder!
A remark: the comment of Schloendorff at 5:07 which compares Hitler to Wilder(s) (as far as I can distinguish from the audio) is at best preposterous and misinformed. Pity that the Dutch/Flemish participant did not comment on it to sharpen the discussion.
melkquelk 1 year ago
Excellent comment
von1933 1 year ago
The only intelligent things here are said by MacMillan and Schloendorff. Patapievici with his invocation of the "soul" (he is probably intoxicated by Berdiaev or Tolstoy?) is a dreadful windbag. As if the SS officers did not listen to Beethoven with "soul". They did it too much and too well! The Holocaust perpetrated by one of the most advanced civilisations on the planet remains a mystery and desaster of human morality, and no cheap appeals to "humanism" will explain it. Think harder!
mircion 1 year ago