Everybody talks about this new film, Titanic. Somebody said the reason people took to it so much is that the entire cast, for once, is white - a rare thing in these ethnically smorgasbord times.
Another friend shares some of his more introspective feelings because he saw comparisons to our activist struggle to bring some sanity and balance into history:
"There's an, er, pivotal scene in the new Titanic movie, the latest Hollywood blockbuster, where the big ocean liner begins to list and when everything and everybody begins to slip and slide away. To my mind, the Titanic is a metaphor for what's happening now with the Holocaust legend: colliding with hard-core, empirical science, and beginning to list, as it were.
"Meanwhile, the frantic crew members on board have been instructed to act as though everything were normal (the band in the ballroom has been ordered to continue playing all the favourite tunes requested by its Jewish clientele), even as the evidence starts to rapidly accumulate that something is seriously wrong (e.g., waiters [read: the court historians] wading about in ice-cold, salty, ankle-deep seawater).
"Controversy galore: In Canada alone, in this Albania-of-the-mind, in the space of a mere two weeks, we get the new Holocaust Gallery controversy slated for our national war museum agitating our WW 2 vets; the flap over holocausted seals and Holocausted Jews fomented by naturalist Farley Mowat; reports of yet more elderly East European emigres slated to be deported for their alleged wartime conduct; some rumblings in the Baltic and Ukrainian communities over the government's appointment of onetime OSI chief Neal Sher as a 'Nazi-hunting' consultant - all happening even as almost daily reports of atrocities committed by Israeli forces against Arab civilians and Palestinian refugees are being filed; and so on.
"And nobody, but nobody, remarks on the wild contradiction or dares connect the all-too-obvious dots in a public way. Talk about a spiritual, moral and intellectual dissonance!
"What I'm driving at is this: When things are so patently abnormal, those whose job it is to proceed as though all this was simply business as usual have to work a lot harder in order to be convincing. The Holocaust legend serves as a kind of barometer that provides us with telltale signs of just how out of whack things have gotten - on the spiritual, moral and intellectual plane.
"What's truly ominous for the keepers of the Holocaust flame has been the convergence to two sets of forces acting in unision, like a pair of grinding millstones (consider them stand-ins for the iceberg and the deadly ocean sinking what was, supposedly, an unsinkable ocean liner).
"One of the millstones is the moral vacuum at the heart of our new social order, producing an incoherence and absurdity (we now have organized Jewry here kvetching about how it's gentile *tolerance* that's really the biggest menace to their group cohesion. Against such a surrealist backdrop, old-time liberalism is having an increasingly hard time of it remaining credible and viable as a worldview. That's what I see as the main job of the media nowadays: Making sure that what is genuinely abnormal be (mis)taken for normal (and vice versa).
"The other grinding millstone complements the first: namely the emergence of an alternative media. There's the Net, of course (that's all-too-obvious); but along with it, there is the ubiquity of the VCR and videotapes, the satellite dish, and whatnot, all resulting in a fast-growing fragmentation of media monoliths and monopoly. The most important factor, though, is the unprecedented ability of our average lunchbucket Joe to communicate suppressed information to his peers right across the planet.
"I believe that very soon now a critical mass will be reached when the old liberal storyline with its "feelgood" narrative (edited and formatted to sell a cozy PC post-Holocaust version of reality) will cease being credible, or even acceptable, to the news consumers; when even Floyd (or Lloyd) the Anchorman, will challenge his fatuous producers with fits of exasperation: 'I can't read this on the air--what the hell! Who'd believe it, anyhow?'
"Against this backdrop there will continue to be many Jewish and/or Zionist salesmen selling (what will amount to in consumer terms) different models (or versions) of the Holocaust product. But many of the supersalesmen really don't know too much about the product they're flogging. I know Bradley Smith has caught Dean Hier of the Wiesenthal Centre in some major confusion; just as Marc Lemire has recorded Bernie Farber of the Canadian Jewish Congress caught in a whopper of a contradiction. **This** is where I think the legend will start to unravel: With poorly rehearsed spokespersons for organized Jewry being unable to agree on a single definitive version of the Holocaust, and so ending up getting caught up in all manner of contradictions.
"Internecine squabbling and bitchery, with the public looking on and seeing how organized Jewry is debating an issue that it had always **denied** gentiles a right to engage in - **that**, to my mind, will be the loose thread that will cause the grand old Holocaust opry to lose its legendary status.
"Once that old fostered sense of taboo has been loosened, then it will be open season on The Legend."
Thought for the Day:
"There is an alternative to Jewry's history of the world. It did not begin in 1933 - and most assuredly it did not die in 1945."
(Granata Communications)