The Windermere Children

When I was growing up, the horrors of World War II and Nazi oppression still weighed heavily on hearts and minds, and cultures went to great soulful lengths to instructively ensure they wouldn't be forgotten. 

You didn't have to search for very long to find outlets condemning the racist violence, and politicians who condoned hatred had very short-lived careers.

The state of the public sphere today is a reckless mess. There's no general emphasis on consensus or teamwork or collegiality or reconciliation, just a mad reactionary groundless onslaught of grotesque irresponsibility. 

Even something as consensus building as a plague has been divisively politicized, and official acts of incredible stupidity abound with gleeful unconcern.

But if I remember correctly, sowing deep rooted contempt for government by promoting bureaucratic chaos (the government appears to be dysfunctional all the time so people lose faith in politics) is a far right strategy, which is being employed ad infinitum to champion sheer catastrophe (see Chomsky).

The Nazis took power in such a climate in hopeless post-War Germany, and unleashed an unprecedented deluge of hate that crippled Europe for decades.

The holocaust was the most revolting undertaking ever unleashed on unsuspecting peoples, and the racist ideologies that encouraged it are once more circulating in the public sphere.

The Windermere Children presents survivors of that unimaginable horror, that extreme repugnant terror that claimed millions of innocent lives.

To see what the kids have been reduced to near the beginning of the film, is to witness utter despondency pure and ghastly total war.

But thanks to the caring endeavours of a British philanthropist and a group of teachers, they were delicately nursed back to health as the film wondrously demonstrates.

There are politicians like Biden who truly care about humanistic enterprise, and have no interest in dividing a nation into disparate unintegrated groups.

They seek non-violent productive community, not the profits of war.

The world can be more peaceful, it's just a matter of respect and productivity.

A focus on international community.

That doesn't leave behind individualistic ambition.