Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Starving children / Requisitioning of valuables possessed by the Russian Orthodox Church / Fundraising flights in support of the hungry / Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries.
Watching this 11-minute newsreel from 104 years ago, the things that haven't changed from then to now could fill a book, which no one would want to read. Sure, fashion and airplane design have moved on, but children are still starving, at the mercy of bankers & oligarchs who never need to see them, and people still protesting injustice in the streets, because there's always injustice, always.
The idea that Orwell's quote (about the future of humanity just being a boot stamping on a human face forever) might be way more true than we want to acknowledge, makes me want to just hug my 5-year-old forever, and apologize for the world we've brought him into with every breath in my lungs.
The aerial footage of 1920s Moscow was cool, though.
Watching this 11-minute newsreel from 104 years ago, the things that haven't changed from then to now could fill a book, which no one would want to read. Sure, fashion and airplane design have moved on, but children are still starving, at the mercy of bankers & oligarchs who never need to see them, and people still protesting injustice in the streets, because there's always injustice, always.
The idea that Orwell's quote (about the future of humanity just being a boot stamping on a human face forever) might be way more true than we want to acknowledge, makes me want to just hug my 5-year-old forever, and apologize for the world we've brought him into with every breath in my lungs.
The aerial footage of 1920s Moscow was cool, though.
