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A new essay from Ta-Nehisi Coates on his experience in learning French has drawn a lot of commentary about privilege. I specifically want to address a post from Freddie deBoer, because I think he brings clarity on some things, but I find his final conclusion that socialism is the only morally acceptable system wrong.
This is I think his core correct insight:
There is no space where privilege ends and legitimate accomplishment begins.
And this is the core flawed conclusion he draws from this:
Instead, we should recognize the folly of tying material security and comfort to our flawed perceptions of other peoples value
In all this discussion people are mostly talking about intellectual or economic achievements, but this isnt the only kind. I think a useful way to think about these kinds of achievements is to contrast them to virtues.
We all have a spectrum of positive and negative factors, both nature and nurture, that affect our ability to achieve things. But we all face a similar spectrum of factors affecting our ability to be virtuous. If you give to charity, or volunteer a lot, or are a good father or husband, or are honest, or are kind, etc, is this about what you choose to do and the actions you choose to take, or about factors that are outside of your control? Are these behaviors just about how your parents raised you, the community you grew up in, and importantly, how behaving in these ways makes you feel? Why should moral accomplishments be chalked up to our free will and choices while economic and intellectual ones be legitimate accomplishment?
The answer is of course that the murkiness Freddie sees exists in all these areas. And yet, should we not praise good behavior? Should we stop praising honesty because, like work ethic of someone who finished med school, we cant in a rigorous way distinguish when honesty is just a product of how they were brought up?
I would say no, in both cases we should praise the achievements and think of them as such. To me it is simply common sense we should praise honest people. I would say the same applies to those with economic and intellectual achievements, but to folks like Freddie that is not the case. Much like I dont know how to explain to someone why telling the truth is praiseworthy if they dont see it, I cant really explain to Freddie why having a good work ethic or the other characteristics that help make someone economic or academically successful is praiseworthy if he doesnt see it. I can only draw parallels and ask what the differences are.
But what I do think should be visible to all is that holding aside all of these philosophical difficulties, praising moral behavior and having an economic system that rewards the creation of economic value is instrumentally valuable. A world that praises charitable behavior despite humanitys widely differing propensities for it means we have more charitable behavior and are all better off, including those without such propensities. And a world that rewards the creation of economic value despite humanitys widely different propensities for it means we have more economic value and are all better off, including those without such propensities.
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It was a small sensation that the premiere of a documentary film - "From Caligari to Hitler" - took place at one of the world's most significant film festivals. The film was screened as part of the Venice Classics series, alongside restored historical cinematic masterpieces like "Mouchette" by Robert Bresson and "Stolen Kisses" by Francois Truffauts.
"From Caligari to Hitler" is film critic Rdiger Suchsland's directorial debut. The title is a reference to the 1920 silent film, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," largely regarded as the first horror film. Suchsland's documentary focuses on the 1920s and 30s - the heyday of German cinema - and examines journalist and film theorist Sigfried Kracauer's famous thesis that German filmmakers supposedly predicted the rise of National Socialism in their works.
DW: Mr. Suchsland, were you surprised to receive an invitation to the Venice Film Festival?
'From Caligari to Hitler" is film critic Rdiger Suchsland's directing debut
Rdiger Suchsland: Yes, I was very surprised. It's my first film. It's hard to say how it's going to turn out when a film critic who wasn't trained as a filmmaker makes a film. I think my invitation to Venice can be attributed to the wonderful historical footage by camera professionals like Karl Freund. Excerpts from well known films like "Metropolis" (1927) and "Nosferatu" (1922) are included. It didn't have a whole lot to do with my directing.
The film was screened as part of the Venice Classics series, which mainly presented restored masterpieces and rediscoveries.
There are many documentary films about cinema. The historical consciousness in cinema is not as strong as, let's say, in literature, where a new edition of a book by Fontane or Schiller would be covered by the newspapers and compared with previous editions. In cinema, television, and motion pictures, we don't have this kind of tradition of dealing with the history of the medium. That's of course because it's the newest medium.
There should be a lot more [attention paid to film history] because all of the new films are based on the classics. Today, many people's knowledge of film, even at film schools, begins with Quentin Tarantino.
What does the title "From Caligari to Hitler" mean?
That was the title of a book by Sigfried Kracauer. He was the leading film critic during the Weimar Republic. To some extent, he invented the field of film criticism in post-war Germany. Kracauer wrote for the daily newspaper "Frankfurter Zeitung," the most important newspaper of the time, and wrote about this period.
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