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Speaker 1:          00:00          And so Pinocchio was left without the guidance of conscience and the cricket is trying to figure out how to get off pleasure island back. He goes through the gates and he sees what's actually going on and what's going on is that the coach when has this like slave boat down in the bowels of the island and he's got all these, these black suited minions with the glowing eyes working for him and they're rounding up what looked like donkeys. And so they're are beasts of burden, right? And so there's an idea here that if you produce, if you pursue impulsive pleasure to the detriment of the development of your character, you're going to end up a beast of burden. You're going to end up a slave to a tyrant. And that's exactly right. And so anyways, put other cricket doesn't. You can see one of those black suited horrors here, hauling donkeys out of this crate and one of them has a hat on and they look very sad and they're in different crates.

Speaker 1:          01:00          And one of them says sold to the salt mines. And one says sold to the circus. And so they're shipped off to be, to be slaves, roughly speaking, and they look very sad and then one of them gets hauled out of a crate and he's still got a hat. He has a hat on and a sweater and he can still talk. He's a boy. It turns out that's been half transformed into a jackass, abrading jackass prior to being enslaved. And so that's, that's another thing that's quite interesting about the story. You know, it, it, it also makes the case that if you replace your voice with stupid brain, that the probability that you're going to become enslaved by a tyrant is extraordinarily high. And I always can't help but think about idiot idiot logs in that manner. You know, Solzhenitsyn wrote about the radical left ideologues that got thrown in the Gulag archipelago, you know, so they were part party stalwarts.

Speaker 1:          01:53          This happened to a lot of people, true believers who are vacuumed up by the in this machine and thrown in, thrown into the ghoulag anyways. And he said that those people suffered in some ways more than everyone else because what did he say? They were bit by the beloved hand that fed them and so the first while when they were in the camps, socialism really didn't know what to do with people like that because on the one hand while they were in the camps and wasn't that awful and they'd been torn away from their families and you know, stripped of all their identity and their status and so that's pretty rough. But on another hand they were writing letters, protesting their innocence and assuming that everyone else in the camp was guilty but they were innocent and they were still strident believers in the communist process.

Speaker 1:          02:36          And so, you know, it was a conundrum. Here they are being terribly punished, but by the same token, there are also. The perpetrators have their own demise. So how do you deal with them? And they used to play comrades. He said they used to play comrades with people like that and invite them into an ideological discussion about the camp situation and the situation in the country as a whole and let them rattle out their idiot logical justifications for everything that had happened in, in trying to make them parody themselves. Roughly speaking, it was a rough game and Solzhenitsyn also concluded that

Speaker 1:          03:15          there is no helping someone like that when they were still ensconced inside that brain ideology. You can predict everything they were going to say. It's like someone had a crank, you could just crank it and out would come the proper radiological formulas, but then he realized that as soon as they, let's call it, repented of that and started to realize their own role in it or the era of the system, then he would start communicating with them. You know, as if they were people who who you could communicate with. Yeah, so that was very interesting as far as I'm concerned. Anyways, this kid is still a little bit human. He starts to cry for his mom and the coachman basically throws them back into the crate and says that he's not ready yet, and the reason for that is that he could still. He still had the power of independent speech.

Speaker 1:          04:04          You remember right at the beginning of the movie when the Mouse was painted on Pinocchio, we saw that mask that was really glaring at the process and I said that character recurs continually throughout the movie. And here's a good example of that because the coach, when is the enemy of anything that has its own voice. So he's the anti Japan. Oh, that's a good way of thinking about it. He's the tyrannical aspect of the, of the culture, but as in so far as one of these mostly donkeys, mostly jackasses can still talk. Then they're not completely fit for slavery. And you remember this movie was being made at about the same time that the Nazi transformation of Germany was taking place. And so all these terrible underground things, you know this, this process whereby people were being reduced to two ideological slave say and in this terrible process that was all playing out in Europe in a very big way. And it's not like people weren't aware of that, you know, it was in there. So

Speaker 1:          05:11          any ways that the donkey's, the Jack asses that can still talk, her crying and complaining and repenting and the coachman turns into a full Kyron again in cracks the whip, if I remember correctly, and says you've had your fun and now you're going to pay for it. So the cricket gets word of all this. He gets wind of it. He starts to understand what's happened is that all these bad kids were enticed out onto this island so that they could be enslaved. And he's really taken aback by that to say the least. But he realizes what's going on. So He runs back to find Pinocchio. And then the scene switches back to the eight ball bar where I'm lamp wick is drinking beer and complaining about what the conscience said, you know, cause he's kind of guilty, I'm ashamed, but he won't admit it because he doesn't admit he knows everything.

Speaker 1:          05:58          He's not going to admit anything about himself that isn't perfect. He's a real totalitarian in training and he drinks this beer and he's laughing about the conscious and putting them down. And then he says, well, what? What is, what does he say? Exactly? What does he think? I am a jack ass or something like that. Maybe that's not the words. Exactly. And then he grows these, these ears from Pinocchio, sees that and immediately takes a look at the beer and stops drinking it. And then land put transformers one more time and his face turns into the face of a donkey. And he's laughing still. And then his, his hands. Oh yes. He laughs suddenly starts to bray like a, like a jackass. And he's horrified by that. And then Pinocchio laughs and the brain comes out as well. And so now they're absolutely horrified and lampock actually figures out what's going on.

Speaker 1:          06:47          He figures out that he's been tricked and that he's transforming and he's completely horrified by it. He becomes conscious of what's happening to them. And there's one particularly I would say, dramatic scene where his hands have transformed in hooves and he's kicking in and, and, and a leaping around the room and panic and he comes up to a mirror and sees himself as a Jack Ass. And then he turns around and breaks the mirror. And so, you know, he self conscious for a moment. Then he destroys his capacity for self consciousness that he transforms entirely into a jackass. He's farther down the road than Pinocchio. And he comes crawling to Pinocchio to save him and asks that the conscience comes back so that he can get out of this. But of course it's a bit too late. And so then UN occhio grows jackass ears and he's absolutely terrified by it as well. He knows what's coming and the cricut comes back and, and guides them off. Pleasure island. And so then they end up on a cliff, because this is an island after all, they have to jump into the unknown, right out of this impulsive adolescent hedonic playground into the unknown. And that's how they escape.