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Posted by verity on 06/08/06 16:16
Neredbojias wrote:
> To further the education of mankind, "verity" <verity.gray@mac.com>
> vouchsafed:
>
> >> > LOL, most Western films are about anything but the actual history.
> >> > I'd love to see a film based on the book "Watch for me on the
> >> > mountain" by Forrest Carter.
> >> > About Geronimo.
> >>
> >> Years ago Burt Lancaster did a film based somewhat on the real
> >> Geronimo called "Apache". It wasn't quite historically accurate but
> >> did realistically portray the general plight of the Native American
> >> in the process of being conquered. I suspect Geronimo was actually a
> >> kind of juvenile-deliquent-cum-rebel with an arguable amount of
> >> justification for his indefensibly brutal tactics. Blatant savagery
> >> isn't noble even if it seems like the only option.
> >>
> > Yes, saw Burt Lancaster film decades ago.
> > I think I would have done what he did, if I'd come home from a hunting
> > trip to find my wife, children & entire village, dead & mutilated.
> > Don't see him as a delinquent, wasn't that the cavalry.
>
> I don't recall all the specific events in the plot, but 2 wrongs don't make
> a right. Furthermore, nothing could bring them back so anything you do is
> just for your own gratification. Revenge should be, uh, "deeper" than
> that. OTOH, perhaps I am too sophisticated in my outlook, but that doesn't
> mean I lack a temper. The trouble is temper never resolves anything. An
> adequate resolution requires valid reasoning and an understanding of what
> is and is not possible. Great leaders and warlords have ultimately lost
> because they failed to realize they could not ride the scirocco of fortune
> forever. Those who prevail do so by clever logic and calculated
> persistence, not by simple emotional whim.
>
> --
> Neredbojias
> Infinity has its limits.
I totally agree with you that one's own anger is the first enemy to
overcome.
However my point was that he did not commit any 'atrocities' until
after the defenceless ones in his society were cowardly attacked and
mutilated.
He was fighting against people who appeared to have no soul; they were
"non-humans" in a very real way to him & his followers.
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