Congress will investigate if CIA has given unauthorized access to classified material to the creators of the film Zero Dark Thirty, concerning torture practices used to extract information. (1) Genuine art is rare. Most of the times, art serves the ones in power. And once more, films of Holywood try to make us used to things like violence, torture, violations of human rights. And they will succeed. Unless we deliberately choose NOT to see this movie.
It may not sound as philosophy, but it is. And of the most important kind: the obvious is always easy to forget.
Yes. TORTURE IS NOT GOOD!
And watching is the first step towards accepting it.
Ghandhi said it elonquently:
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.”
