The children are terrifying. The adults are so wretchedly evil and repulsive I wanted to reach into the screen and grab them by the throat. One of the most horrifying and depressing things I've seen in a long time, maybe ever.
This is precisely why Hitler was so focused on capturing the youth:
“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”
“I begin with the young. We older ones are used up but my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at all these men and boys! What material! With you and I, we can make a new world.”
“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”
“The question of ‘nationalizing’ a people is first and foremost one of establishing healthy social conditions which will furnish the grounds that are necessary for the education of the individual. For only when family upbringing and school education have inculcated in the individual a knowledge of the cultural and economic and, above all, the political greatness of his own country—then, and then only, will it be possible for him to feel proud of being a citizen of such a country.”
The children are terrifying. The adults are so wretchedly evil and repulsive I wanted to reach into the screen and grab them by the throat. One of the most horrifying and depressing things I've seen in a long time, maybe ever.
I weep for the future.
This is precisely why Hitler was so focused on capturing the youth:
“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”
“I begin with the young. We older ones are used up but my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at all these men and boys! What material! With you and I, we can make a new world.”
“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”
“The question of ‘nationalizing’ a people is first and foremost one of establishing healthy social conditions which will furnish the grounds that are necessary for the education of the individual. For only when family upbringing and school education have inculcated in the individual a knowledge of the cultural and economic and, above all, the political greatness of his own country—then, and then only, will it be possible for him to feel proud of being a citizen of such a country.”
And, of course, “1984” taught us as much:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgL2XvqhX-Y