At 5:12 Meade states "The precise figure (of collaborators) will never be known". I would say "Plenty, and that's just a rough estimate". It's human nature to go along with it and survive.
@Stereolabdream Totally agree with you. This short section of the film was stunning; a superbly concise statement of a truth that's got lost. Looking around the internet, I noticed a number of other people had drawn attention to this part too. Another of his knock-outs is in the middle of On The Brandwagon, where he decries the vapid "fun art" that we're being peddled because the establishment have declared Shakespeare, Joyce, Mozart and Beethoven "elitist" and therefore "bad".
1.55-2.32 brilliant. Meades is to Social Commentary and Arts what Hitchens was to religion and politics- With Meades however, we must accept the misquoted maxim of P.T Barnum to want more...hmmm...Hiram Maxim's machine gun...where more is more.
These are not his greatest episodes, where he comes out in favor of colonialism (and neglects to mention it was the preferred course for Algerians themselves) and defends with some sloppy appeal to homogenization. Colonies are not homogenizing. Not a little bit. The atrocities were to be expected following a vicious war. I'll take celebrating diversity over that anyday. The Navajos helped the US beat the Japanese, what did the N. irish do for the UK? He knows well enough what creates ghettos.
At 5:12 Meade states "The precise figure (of collaborators) will never be known". I would say "Plenty, and that's just a rough estimate". It's human nature to go along with it and survive.
Totally correct as regards the Human Rights Industry.
@Stereolabdream Totally agree with you. This short section of the film was stunning; a superbly concise statement of a truth that's got lost. Looking around the internet, I noticed a number of other people had drawn attention to this part too.
Another of his knock-outs is in the middle of On The Brandwagon, where he decries the vapid "fun art" that we're being peddled because the establishment have declared Shakespeare, Joyce, Mozart and Beethoven "elitist" and therefore "bad".
1.55-2.32
brilliant.
Meades is to Social Commentary and Arts what Hitchens was to religion and politics-
With Meades however, we must accept the misquoted maxim of P.T Barnum to want more...hmmm...Hiram Maxim's machine gun...where more is more.
These are not his greatest episodes, where he comes out in favor of colonialism (and neglects to mention it was the preferred course for Algerians themselves) and defends with some sloppy appeal to homogenization. Colonies are not homogenizing. Not a little bit. The atrocities were to be expected following a vicious war. I'll take celebrating diversity over that anyday. The Navajos helped the US beat the Japanese, what did the N. irish do for the UK? He knows well enough what creates ghettos.