week 8 dq 2 reply to teacher

for me it is all about the Soctratic Method. The ideas and concepts of always be asking new questions. But to never forget the answers which posed the question.

Example in the movie Monuments Men which is part of a collection of clandestine military operations as listed through a number of different movies created over the last more than half a century.

The percentage of accurate varies from about half to less than 2.

The dirty dozen

Monuments Men

the Great Escape

the Guns of the Navarre; gun instillations in both the eastern Mediterranean and north west Germany. Only the Mediterranean guns were depicted.

and about 2% accurate the Quentin Tarantino film “Inglorious Bastards”

etc. are part of a large collection of military operations. These military operations were written about and desired in some detail through the writings of Ian Fleming, who was in field commander for dozens of those missions. Ian was the unseen Colonel to the character Lee Marvin played. He went on the missions but did little of the infield fighting, he was more recon outside and intel officer once the space was secure.

If you review what Ian wrote and then review for specific details what those film makers depicted, the number of questions is intense. Those questions create a picture which tells a vastly different story than the one we currently understand about WWII. Also it tells a radically different picture about the cold war than we who were raised in the aftermath of the cold war were informed of.

Small changes to perspective which the socratic method was desnged to assist the students and teachers in building into their conscious minds, can have the most profound affect on how “known” information is actually very different from what we were taught. Take King Minos, from an Athens perspective, he was a blood thirsty tyrant who demanded to have 24 Jews sent to him every year as tributes to feed to his minotaur. However from the persoective of the city of Knossos, he was a great leader who did all kinds of great htings for his city and people. Perspeictive, which the Socratic Method is designed to assist in digging for those different perspetives.