It was 1946 and this lost educational film on despotism was required curriculum at every high school in America.
The associated test, 11 pages quizzed students on the concepts.
By 1967, this film was removed from all libraries.
The term despotism has since become unfashionable pic.twitter.com/m72ES9sPmq
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) October 18, 2021
Public schools would never show this today.
Here’s another educational gem from yesteryear…
It was 1952 and this educational film was seen by most high school students for a decade.
It taught the concept of inflation.
It championed a war on inflation to less than half a percent.
The film was canceled in 1965.
$1 in 1952 is worth $11.20 in 2021. pic.twitter.com/ep7Blf7hHP
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) October 18, 2021
Wow, Misty. What a find!! How good it is to remember our roots. Shows us who we were and that we can again be strong and independent. Thank you, and I’ve only watched the first one so far.
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https://ia902702.us.archive.org/27/items/dom-24570-despotism/Despotis1946_edit_512kb.mp4
This is a must see.
This is a perspective from the point of a democracy. We are not a democracy. We are supposed to be a republic. And the incidents depicted, though correct in many aspects, are straight up violations of our law.
We do not have to accept despotism. We can kill it and those who perpetuate it and we can do it in obedience to the highest law of this land.
We are not citizens. We are individual free sovereign nationals.
I agree with you Henry, I can’t help but wonder why it was pulled?
Because it did depict the driving of the thin edge of the thick wedge to the thick edge in the democracy that never existed. And that is the slick part of it. While they were telling all of these truths, which were damaging to the overall agenda, they were also slipping that democracy edge right up our individual asses.
They took it down because the weight of one outweighed the advantage of the other. Orwellian doublespeak should be considered an art. They tried to lay it out as a fate acompli, but too much of the wrong part of the message was seen for what it is and was calculated to build resistance.
Did you notice how they managed to inject a specific “victimized” group into the video? A cohencidence! 😉
yup and here we are today