| re: "How Can Love Survive?" and "No Way to Stop It" question. | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 08:07 pm EDT 03/27/24 | |
| In reply to: re: "How Can Love Survive?" and "No Way to Stop It" question. - portenopete 07:24 pm EDT 03/27/24 | |
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| LOL. I will say here that I agree that "No Way to Stop It" is at least partly a charm song, as long as you ignore what comes before it and after it. Elsa and Max are charming people, and they state their point of view — advocating for apathy, if you can advocate for apathy, and elevating self-interest above the greater good — in a charming way. I will quote from John Stuart Mill: "Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.” I took that from the link I am posting. At that link, it says that the saying “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" is wrongly if widely attributed to Edmund Burke. What makes the song intentionally insidious is that it is indeed a charm song if you overlook context. And yet Max does then possibly put his neck on line to save the Trapps. |
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