"If I can't dance, I don't want your revolution!" - Emma Goldman (there are many variations of this quote floating around)
I thought this was an interesting quote so I looked up Emma Goldman. I found out that she
was a Lithuanian-born anarcho-communist known for her anarchist writings and speeches. Adopted by First-wave feminists, she has been lionized as an iconic 'rebel woman' feminist. Goldman played a pivotal role in the development of anarchism in the US and Europe throughout the first half of the twentieth century.
(Side note: I always find it funny that anarchists are the kind of people that would never survive in the kind of world they strive for.)
This past week I was reading an article in Vanity Fair about the 1981 movie Reds. It a movie co-written, directed and starring Warren Beatty. It is the story of an American journalist in Russia during the Communist Revolution. This movie is based on a true story and Emma Goldman is one of the characters portrayed. Weird, I had never heard about her before in my life and I read about her twice in one week.
On to the next connection:
In said article, the writer states that no one could ever call Warren Beatty a political dilettante since he has been an active member of the Democrat party since the 60s. I was amused since I love the word dilettante and it is not common (at least in the circles I travel in). Low and behold, guess what Dictionary.com's word of the day is?
dilettante \DIL-uh-tont; dil-uh-TONT; dil-uh-TON-tee; -TANT; -TAN-tee\, noun:
1. An amateur or dabbler; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge sporadically, superficially, or for amusement only.
2. An admirer or lover of the fine arts.
adjective:
1. Of or characteristic of a dilettante; amateurish.
So to sum things up:
Dance quote -> Emma Goldman -> Reds -> Warren Beatty
Word of the Day -> dilettante -> not Warren Beatty
Some day I may have to post my theory about why some men don't marry until alter in life. I call it my "Warren Beatty Theory".
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