Musings From the Edge: Two Answers
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I will admit that I don’t have much faith in my fellow humans and I figure that most of you cheated but here are the answers anyway.
If you answered yes to the first question you just killed off Beethoven. I realize that some of you probably wouldn’t care anyway because you really don’t listen to classical music. But, it is not just classical music you would have missed. You would have also missed the movie “A Clockwork Orange”, and that would be a tragedy. What, some of do not even know that of which I speak. Oh ye young children. Have you no respect for our great country’s tampering with B.F. Skinner’s behavior modification theories. For Shame. Then surely you will know that you would have missed Chuck Berry’s “Roll Over Beethoven”. I mean, I know the song came out in 1956 but Chuck is still on tour.
I am quite sure all of you had your favorite picks for our next world leader. This was easy. When I first saw this question I ask myself the same question I always tell other people to ask, “When something seems to good to be true, it probably is.” So I picked B. I bet some of you picked C. Here are the answers. See if you liked your choice.
Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Candidate B is Winston Churchill.
Candidate C is Adolph Hitler.
As someone once said, “When something seems to good to be true, it probably is.”
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OK, if I think cheating is clever, I may do it, but this is not one of those cases.
I actually doubt that many of us cheated, as that would ruin the game. I know I did not cheat. I vacillated, misdirected, ran for the hills, but I did not cheat. I am deceitful, cowardly, and unsporting, but I’m no cheater.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adolph Hitler. As I thought… I’ve been punk’d. As the saying goes, “Even Hitler loved dogs and kids.” Even Mahatma Gandhi was initially fooled by Hitler’s ability:
It is quite clear that you are today the one person in the world who can prevent a war which may reduce humanity to the savage state. Must you pay that price for an object however worthy it may appear to you to be? Will you listen to the appeal of one who has deliberately shunned the method of war not without considerable success?
Then Gandhi got schooled like the rest of us who fell for Bill’s subversive list of candidates:
Gandhi was not that mild in judging the crimes Hitler had already committed… “your own writings and pronouncements and those of your friends and admirers leave no room for doubt that many of your acts are monstrous and unbecoming of human dignity, especially in the estimation of men like me who believe in human friendliness. Such are your humiliation of Czechoslovakia, the rape of Poland and the swallowing of Denmark. I am aware that your view of life regards such spoliations as virtuous acts. But we have been taught from childhood to regard them as acts degrading humanity.”
As the saying goes, “Even Hitler loved dogs and kids.” Except Jewish kids I guess. Even Mahatma Gandhi was initially fooled by Hitler’s ability: It is quite clear that you are today the one person in the world who can prevent a war which may reduce humanity to the savage state. Must you pay that price for an object however worthy it may appear to you to be? Will you listen to the appeal of one who has deliberately shunned the method of war not without considerable success?
And then Gandhi got schooled like the rest of us who fell for Bill’s clever list of candidates: Gandhi was not that mild in judging the crimes Hitler had already committed… “your own writings and pronouncements and those of your friends and admirers leave no room for doubt that many of your acts are monstrous and unbecoming of human dignity, especially in the estimation of men like me who believe in human friendliness. Such are your humiliation of Czechoslovakia, the rape of Poland and the swallowing of Denmark. I am aware that your view of life regards such spoliations as virtuous acts. But we have been taught from childhood to regard them as acts degrading humanity.”
And, just like the pee party, Hitler believed: Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today is like a hothouse for sexual ideas and simulations. Just look at the bill of fare served up in our movies, vaudeville and theaters, and you will hardly be able to deny that this is not the right kind of food, particularly for the youth … Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea. Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf.
As always, a profound musing which led me to too many words for a simple comment. Many thanks, Bill.
Your are welcome as always Stella. Anything I can do to get your eloquent writing out here for me to enjoy.
Ah, I chose A I should have cheated, I would have liked to see how I could explain away to myself, the match I would have with C.
That could be interesting Jess. Self inflicted arguments with ones self are really fun are a scotch or two too many. Often though I can remember who won.
I’m a fellow B-liever Bill!
Yes you are Oso though I am still trying to figure out why I didn’t choose “A”. He is actually more my style with the two mistresses.
I think it is irresponsible of anyone to have eight kids forget the ninth, and slightly egocentric think that they should populate the world in their likeness.
True bsranch. It would helped if I had mentioned the century.