Joyce Vs. Nazis

 

I think of Finnegans Wake; how beautiful it is and how it was written while Nazi Germany was impregnating daily their youth with ideodic beliefs and false doctrine. Contrasted by the prolific propaganda machine of the Germans, Finnegans Wake was driveling fodder for the minds of 1939's children and man-children. Joyce is but one man but a man who had a great opportunity to impact millions while writing in Paris coffee shops.  Magnificent wordplay seems quite vapid when juxtaposing such machinized atrocious acts fueled by noxious rhetoric that needed serious contention across all spheres. This is quite a modern dilemma as well. Critical thinking is in delirious decline. And entertainment reigns more than ever. Who isn't responsible? Let the artist be an artist, the chips will fall where they may... some say. Though, I wonder about these chips of ours. GREGORY MARK SONDROL © 9/7/2019