Films Are A Way To Kill My Father

The quote in the title came from a dialogue between Bernardo Bertolucci and Jean Luc Godard. I shall leave it to your cleverness which of the two actually uttered it.

The Karl, Karl Rove, that is, was correct when he implied that History was over, and it was to be but a footnote to American Imperialism. Rove, as a Boomer, has pretty much come through, and he has destroyed history, at least history as we knew it. By killing History, we kill our father, our grandfather, and so on. We kill the History of the Founding Fathers and Mothers.

Perhaps it was right to kill it, perhaps not.

In either case, killing demands reconciliation.

When the soldiers return from war, they must reconcile with God. So must all of us. And the reconciliation is strong and meaningful, not just uttering a few prayers.

We ignored Viet vets by not seeing them as people needing the reconciliation back into society, after that society had sent them off to commit atrocities of war.

We must reconcile with God; we must not be "for" or "against".

When we hate, we must reconcile.

When we fight wars of lies, we must reconcile.

When we neglect the poor - whom we have been ordered to tend - we must reconcile.

When we neglect the sick - whom we have been instructed to tend - we must reconcile.

If we do not cleanse ourselves with water and soap, God will cleanse us with furze and nettles.