Sunday, August 26, 2007

Beautiful

I am almost at a loss for words for how eloquently Jacob Bronowski presents his thoughts. "We have to touch people".



I also found this quite beautiful. Perhaps there are still free thinkers among us and in the media, who would have thought.

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Unknown said...

My thanks for your link to the Existentialist Cowboy, but, primarily, your posting of the BBC documentary and the excerpt from Jacob Bronowski's historic BBC series, "The Ascent of Man". I have found the juxtaposition of the two significant. The BBC documentary makes the point that people have lost faith in ideologies just as Bronowski, in the last episode of "Ascent of Man" makes an eloquent plea that it is only the in the abandonment of certitude and ideology that mankind may survive.

That Bronowski himself was Polish makes the point all the more poignant. That some 20 plus years separate the two videos is also instructive. Bronowski is remembered; new voices have taken up the standard, a standard of reason over superstition, of science over certitude, of logic over inflexible, inhuman systems. The "state" must not become Moloch.

Bronowski was correct to make his point at Auschwitz, where mass murder was committed on an assembly line. His eloquence, indeed, will continue to "touch people".

September 1, 2007 at 7:57 AM

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