The removal of nuance in politics is something I believe we should all strive against and is a downward spiral.
I see this has been greatly worsened by Twitter but also all forms of social media + fringe media. We are been pushed these oversimplified emotive narratives of good vs evil - a world of goodies and baddies. A lot of issues are complex, yet no one acknowledges that but instead distort it to their own cause/world view.
Everything seems so one sided now, like when was the last time you read an article, an opinion piece, that you felt was trying to persuade you of something? To argue a position that you donβt hold, and make you believe it?
Where you find the Truth and Humanity is in the diagloue between the sides.
Love this quote, thought it would be especially appreciated here.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/movies/albert-maysles-pioneering-documentarian-dies-at-88.html (Albert Maysles' obituary in The New York Times)
Albert, together with his brother David, formed a cornerstone in the history of documentary cinema. They pushed the cinema-verite ideas of Jean Rouch (Chronicle of a Summer) and Robert Drew (Primary) to their expressive, creative levels. In the Maysles brothers' films, the presence of the filmmaker paradoxically disappears and is always felt. They mixed fly-on-the-wall observational direction with great meta moments of their subjects directly addressing the camera and the Maysles literally editing their own movies on film. They hated interviewing their subjects, preferring to see them act out in their own element.
Albert Maysles got his start filming the Beatles during their first U.S. tour in What's Happening!: The Beatles in the USA. Though it was an admittedly lightweight effort that amounted to Maysles recording the Beatles and placing the footage together, it was the first step towards a fruitful and shimmering career of pop-culture investigation, focus on the forgotten American man, and the deadly consequences of the liberated youth in the 1960s. With David and occasional collaborater Charlotte Zwerin, Albert made a series of three great classics in documentary cinema:
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Salesman (1968), concerning the humdrum lives of door-to-door Bible salesmen whose whole success is based off of Loman-esque ideals of charm, money, and facade.
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Gimme Shelter (1969), a document of the Rolling Stones' disastrous 1969 American Tour, which culminated in the free Altamont Speedway Concert that ended in one concertgoer being killed.
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Grey Gardens (1976) and its companion film The Beales of Grey Gardens, the story of "Little Edie" and "Big Edie" Bouvier, two estranged relatives of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis who live a bizarre hermit life in the decrepit remains of a mansion they dub "Grey Gardens"
Albert's younger brother David died of a stroke in 1987 at the age of 55.
Albert is survived by his wife Gillian Walker, his two daughters Rebekah and Sara, and his son Phillip.
Links to Albert Maysles Films
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[The Beales of Grey Gardens on YouTube](https://www.yo
I did my first Red Flood game a few weeks ago as socialist Israel. I really enjoyed it, but I also found it strange to see the nominally pacifist Albert Einstein leading a nation that took part in a world war (I ended up occupying most of British Africa). I think it would make more sense to have Einstein as the social democratic leader, which IIRC tends towards neutrality, while Ben-Gurion becomes the socialist leader. IOTL, Ben-Gurion was a moderate socialist and very much NOT a paficist, and given the political realignments of Red Flood, it's easy to imagine him being a bit more radical.
