We should not forget the profound inheritance from those many and varied cultures conquered by Islam. Persia, Byzantium and Egypt were no intellectual slackers, as well as those such as India and China which repelled its initial advance. The classical inheritance was mainly preserved through Nestorian Chrisitians…

Absolutely, see if anyone notices.

No, but a lot of people would like not to see their children die of cholera. Your capacity for critical thought is as low as your IQ.

Furthermore, they’re all English speaking, from English language film. You would think the non-English speaking world (ie. most of the planet), did not exist. Parochialism is all a matter of perspective.

I don’t think the masks will scare them. Didn’t Anonymous say they were going to do this some time ago?

Ah, but it’s all about them; the power of unsophisticated narcissism.

Dissent is to be stifled. Utterly. Yes.

Well that was a pallid troll about the troll. His own egotistical “virtue-signaling and vicarious ‘enjoyment’”and lack of self-awareness is as laughable as the hashtag activism he derides. Pot? Meet Kettle.

Because it’s all about him.

Agreed. Huge talent. Gives voice to people and concepts ignored elsewhere.

No, you’re not. I love WW, and watch the after-show online too. WW discusses things, sometimes quite sensitive, volatile, and nuanced issues, that no one else with a regular TV slot ever does and not in a mealy-mouthed way. I think she’s a good thing for all the messiness.

Sad how crude the arguments are, Elem Klimov had the last word on Shooting Baby Hitler in Come and See, his 1985 film about the tragedies of WWII in Byelorussia

Swiftworld just reminds me of Heathers (and she’s definitely not Winona).

We just don’t deserve him. None of us.

Such a lack of respect for his unique musical genius. I mean. Really.

Only if I can remember which was which over the last fourteen years! Does the new iTunes still delete everything that’s not an iTunes purchase? 160GB, full, thousands and thousands of songs and that’s just the synched stuff not my total library {breathes into paper bag}

I live in terror of planned obsolescence. I copied all my CD collection and sold the discs. My days are numbered.

The iPod was one of the few gadgets where I can say I was an early adopter. I still have two 160GB Classics in the packaging which I hope will see me out of this world. That said I daren’t update my iTunes lest I lose my library through some new “Stream you Luddite, Stream!” shenanigans. I’m trapped in time! In an mp3…

Not so sure; to have been a fly on the wall while this casting was being decided...

This again. You light the flaming torches, I’ll get the pitchforks, meet you down at the Old Mill...