Comments on: A Change Of Heart And Mind http://chained.blogsome.com/2006/04/28/a-change-of-heart-and-mind/ This blog belongs to Xander Bennett, writer of words for film, TV and comics Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:30:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Akira http://chained.blogsome.com/2006/04/28/a-change-of-heart-and-mind/#comment-179 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:56:45 +0000 http://chained.blogsome.com/2006/04/28/a-change-of-heart-and-mind/#comment-179 I often think of Ho Chi Mhin's response to a Chinese incursion. The Viet Cong were fighting the French, to the south. The Chinese invaded from the north. "Uncle" Ho said "Forget about the frogs. Everybody head north!" Most Comrades disagreed: "But the us an' the Chinee -- we all yellow, man. Yo, check it, we all got slanty eyes, esse! We all down with Marx and Lenin, my brutha! We oughts to be slayin' us some white man!" Then spake Comrade Ho unto the vanguard of the revolutionary people's movement: "Friends, Comrades, Countrymen, lend me your ears. The White Man shall one day be gone from our midst. But were we to let the China Man again trample over our fair and pleasant land, we shall be cursed with their presence yea verily unto eternity!" When some of the comrades remained unconvinced, quoth Ho: "Better to smell French shit for a few more years, than to eat Chinese shit forever!" I often think of Ho Chi Mhin’s response to a Chinese incursion. The Viet Cong were fighting the French, to the south. The Chinese invaded from the north. “Uncle” Ho said “Forget about the frogs. Everybody head north!” Most Comrades disagreed: “But the us an’ the Chinee — we all yellow, man. Yo, check it, we all got slanty eyes, esse! We all down with Marx and Lenin, my brutha! We oughts to be slayin’ us some white man!”

Then spake Comrade Ho unto the vanguard of the revolutionary people’s movement:

“Friends, Comrades, Countrymen, lend me your ears. The White Man shall one day be gone from our midst. But were we to let the China Man again trample over our fair and pleasant land, we shall be cursed with their presence yea verily unto eternity!”

When some of the comrades remained unconvinced, quoth Ho:

“Better to smell French shit for a few more years, than to eat Chinese shit forever!”

]]> by: Rosie http://chained.blogsome.com/2006/04/28/a-change-of-heart-and-mind/#comment-167 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:18:16 +0100 http://chained.blogsome.com/2006/04/28/a-change-of-heart-and-mind/#comment-167 These comments have been invaluable to me as is this whole site. I thank you for your comment. These comments have been invaluable to me as is this whole site. I thank you for your comment.

]]> by: brett http://chained.blogsome.com/2006/04/28/a-change-of-heart-and-mind/#comment-159 Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:54:30 +0100 http://chained.blogsome.com/2006/04/28/a-change-of-heart-and-mind/#comment-159 History has always been one of those amazing subjects which kids get ruined on because of bad teachers, History is not a bunch of dry dates and detached events-- it is instead more like the most ridiculously amazing and interwoven story you'll ever try to understand, and every thread you ever follow sends you down a rabbit hole of new discoveries and new vistas. Stories of emotion and drama and intrigue and laughable luck that any Hollywood development weasel would dismiss out of hand as "too farfetched to be believable." Stories of events so breathtaking that no existing CG technology could even hope to effectively simultaneously describe both the scale and intimacy of the moments in play. Mostly, history is amazing people in amazing situations doing amazing things, usually with no audience or sense that the rest of the species might ever one day look back and go "wow." History rocks. . . . B History has always been one of those amazing subjects which kids get ruined on because of bad teachers, History is not a bunch of dry dates and detached events– it is instead more like the most ridiculously amazing and interwoven story you’ll ever try to understand, and every thread you ever follow sends you down a rabbit hole of new discoveries and new vistas. Stories of emotion and drama and intrigue and laughable luck that any Hollywood development weasel would dismiss out of hand as “too farfetched to be believable.” Stories of events so breathtaking that no existing CG technology could even hope to effectively simultaneously describe both the scale and intimacy of the moments in play.

Mostly, history is amazing people in amazing situations doing amazing things, usually with no audience or sense that the rest of the species might ever one day look back and go “wow.”

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]]> by: JCamara http://chained.blogsome.com/2006/04/28/a-change-of-heart-and-mind/#comment-146 Sun, 07 May 2006 12:14:21 +0100 http://chained.blogsome.com/2006/04/28/a-change-of-heart-and-mind/#comment-146 Too right! I've recently finished off a fairly major writing project, a play based in Melbourne in 1963, and I found it was easiest to write when I'd absorbed a whole lot of info about the era and the social climate of the time. It got to an uncomfortable stage where I found myself agreeing with the basic principle behind the Stolen Generation atrocity, just because that was the predominant attitude at the time. What was interesting was that when it was given to me I thought it was a bland era to set a play in but once I dove into it and learned a bit (thankyou internet!) I found it was as dense with possibilities as any place or time. Just goes to show that it pays off to push yourself outside of your comfort zone once in a while. Too right! I’ve recently finished off a fairly major writing project, a play based in Melbourne in 1963, and I found it was easiest to write when I’d absorbed a whole lot of info about the era and the social climate of the time. It got to an uncomfortable stage where I found myself agreeing with the basic principle behind the Stolen Generation atrocity, just because that was the predominant attitude at the time.

What was interesting was that when it was given to me I thought it was a bland era to set a play in but once I dove into it and learned a bit (thankyou internet!) I found it was as dense with possibilities as any place or time. Just goes to show that it pays off to push yourself outside of your comfort zone once in a while.

]]> by: MaryAn http://chained.blogsome.com/2006/04/28/a-change-of-heart-and-mind/#comment-145 Fri, 05 May 2006 19:57:47 +0100 http://chained.blogsome.com/2006/04/28/a-change-of-heart-and-mind/#comment-145 Don't forget to take and post more pics. They're awesome. Don’t forget to take and post more pics. They’re awesome.

]]> by: christina http://chained.blogsome.com/2006/04/28/a-change-of-heart-and-mind/#comment-144 Sat, 29 Apr 2006 04:55:44 +0100 http://chained.blogsome.com/2006/04/28/a-change-of-heart-and-mind/#comment-144 Interesting! I'm so pathetic when it comes to history. I know way more about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes than Vietnam. And that embarrasses me. My sister-in-law is Cambodian and went through the Killing Fields. She hates Chinese and Vietnamese people. But especially the Chinese. Interesting! I’m so pathetic when it comes to history. I know way more about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes than Vietnam. And that embarrasses me.

My sister-in-law is Cambodian and went through the Killing Fields. She hates Chinese and Vietnamese people. But especially the Chinese.

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