WASHINGTON D.C. WWII ERA HOME MOVIE CHRISTMAS TREES & ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY 42764

[@ArmySatcomGuy]

Not sure I understand the point of the music choice for this one

[@TalkTubeJeff]

Based on the the design of the National Christmas Tree as well as the reindeer and sheep, this would be 1957.

[@garymckee8857]

Please no music.

[@thJune]

I currently live in dc and it’s a dump compared to what you see in this video. How everything looks so clean and well kept compared to today makes me sad.

[@theJellyjoker]

Would have been better without the music.

[@pacather]

Looks like early 1950s

[@michaelprivate8115]

The music is horrific! Why wouldn't you have something age appropriate to the content?

[@theforgottenbrawlers]

You can always mute the video and play something more appropriate but yes, there should be a slightly different tune to this silent film or not any at all yet whether or not the humanities are truly in crisis, the current debates around them have a certain gun-to-the-head quality. “This is why you -- student, parent, Republican senator -- shouldn’t pull the trigger,” their promoters plead. “We deserve to live; we’re good productive citizens; we, too, contribute to the economy, national security, democracy, etc.” Most of these reasons are perfectly accurate. But it is nonetheless surprising that, in the face of what is depicted as an existential crisis, most believers shy away from existential claims (with some exceptions). And by not defending the humanities on their own turf, we risk alienating the very people on whose support the long-term survival of our disciplines depend: students. One reason why our defenses can have a desperate ring to them is that we’re not used to justifying ourselves. Most humanists hold the value of the objects they study to be self-evident. The student who falls in love with Kant, Flaubert, or ancient Egypt does not need to provide an explanation for why she would like to devote years of her life to such studies. To paraphrase Max Weber, scholarship in the humanities is a vocation, a “calling” in the clerical sense. It chooses you, you don’t choose it. The problem with this kind of spiritual passion is that it is difficult to describe. To paraphrase another 20th-century giant, Jimi Hendrix, it’s more about the experience.

[@theJellyjoker]

@@theforgottenbrawlers Cool story, bro.

[@stevebognar4357]

Terrible Music

[@theforgottenbrawlers]

It gives me creeps looking at those silent films just a bad vibe, great video, tho. LOLOLOLOLOLOL