I know this has been discussed before, but I'm watching it right now. Pretty good. Definitely reminds me of The Banality of Evil (about Adolf Eichmann (?) the architect of Hitler's "Final Solution."
Like how can one man be so rational about such horrors? But instead of pure evil, you see a guy rationalizing bumbling, but hell at least it was efficient bumbling.
The WWII stuff is more interesting to me, as that war is always presented as good vs. evil..but McNamara himself says if we lost he and LeMay would have been prosecuted as war criminals.
I don't think this movie as a whole is as cut and dried as I have seen it described, but it is extremely thought provoking.
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Throughout his life, from childhood until death, he was beset by severe swings of mood. His depressions frequently encouraged, and were exacerbated by, his various vices. His character mixed a superficial Enlightenment sensibility for reason and taste with a genuine and somewhat Romantic love of the sublime and a propensity for occasionally puerile whimsy.
harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.
FT Wrote:
LooGAR (the straw that stirs the drink)
