What about oermydi/21/07/06: imagine all the ...?

JB continues @thln/prickly

1) Films of Ralph Bakshi: I think a key cultural motif for both of us is the scene in Wizards where the bad brother's two goons come for a couple of rabbis in long white caftans. They say, "Okay, but just give us a couple of minutes," at which point they start into this com-pletely un dignified vaudeville act in which they're trying to get God's attention. There's a bit of Yiddish thrown into it, notably the phrase
DI GANTSE VELT
(the whole world)! THE HIT EACH OTHER, THEY CLIMB UP AND DOWN LADDERS, AND EVENTUALLY ONE OF THE GOONS SAYS, "Time's up" and shoots both of them.

WHY DOES IT MOVE US SO?
Why is it all the more forceful because the word "Jew" is never mentioned?
What is the relation of this scene tot the one near the end of the movie, where the "good" wizard, just before offing his Hitler brother with a pistol, says "I'm glad you changed your last name, you son of a bitch!"
How do we untangle the anti-Nazi message of that film from its Heideggarian anti-technological neo-Romanticism? Why would it even be a useful critical exercise to do so, rather than an amusing academic parlor game?

For Mor this is also still the same question-and-answer situation as from the very beginning of his 'own' existence: September '44<>
Wednesday, December 13th, '44 <> Sunday, May 13th, '45 & 'ever after' in dreams of flesh & bones, meat & spirit, body & mind moving to-wards 'the south~east', Italy '62, Vledder, Brindisi/Patras/Pireus/Shula/Jeanny/Nurit/Danny/Sdeh Boqer,
Yod Fat, Elat, Aqaba, Silwan/Siloam, YERUSHALAYIM/Petra/Elji/Ma'an/Rabbath Ammon/Ararat/Qazvin/Tehran/Quetta/~
/Herat/Kandahar/Kabul/Lahore/Amritsar/Kashmir/Kerala and Calcutta/Varanasi
Birobeidjan/Toyosato etceterara! Puzzle(s) consisting of millions of pieces mixed up together
through more than 67 years of existence in twenty countries, times, places, communions, situations,
deliberations & their 'united' associations ~ chance, coincidence, fate, Purim as in Mordechai and Esther, Vasthi,
all these boys & girls, men & women, animals, plants & psychedelic wonderings through dreams,
visions, chaos
& love
...
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