Right after I read the Futurist Manifesto, I couldn't help but think of this video that I found the other day, which shows Charlie Chaplin's final speech in The Great Dictator.
It's interesting to see two sides of a revolution; one in which a man calls for anarchy, while another one calls for unity, but in the end, both only want to prove the greatness of humanity. I, for one, am on the side of Chaplin's character; I believe man can amount to a lot of great things, but we must unite together with the motivation of expressing goodness, not bitterness. When I was reading the Futurist Manifesto, I'll admit I appreciated how eloquently it was written, but the subject matter at hand was hardly agreeable. Marinetti calls for a revolution against museums, libraries, and academies, claiming that they take away our ability to live completely. I believe that by one of the underlying motives of writing this manifesto was that Marinetti wanted the people of the world to turn into bumbling fools, with the intention of making them easier to lead, like a herd sheep being shepherded by a wolf. He keeps talking about war and bloodshed, and I can't help but think that his only desired endgame is for the world to devolve back into Neanderthal-like barbarism, which he disguises with the idea of "returning man to his greatest glory."
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