Theatrical Adaptation

Meditation #10 -- Katie Marchant

I feel that the political unrest in Cradle Will Rock can directly correlate to the political unrest in today’s society. In the 1930s through the 1950s the majority of the country was obsessed with the fact that in US could possibly be taken over and turned into a communist nation. The government was actively searching for what they considered “traitors”, people how had political views that were not the “norm”. Today our government is also searching for “traitors” in almost the same way. After 9/11 there was a huge patriotism push and anyone who opposed this push was considered to be a traitor and an enemy of the American democracy. In a way the government in the time of the Communist scare was saying that people who supported communism were not being patriotic but as Cradle Will Rock showed us the government was probably chasing the wrong people. The people they should have been concerned about were probably the rich and those in high society because they had more than Communistic ideals, they had the money to support the Fascist dictators of other countries. We can still see this political unrest today in that if the government feels that someone is a traitor or an enemy of the US they can have their phones tapped or be imprisoned. The government should probably be more concerned about the choices they are making with finances and security than if some group of protesting college kids in Austin are having un-American ideas.

posted by Katie Marchant @ 11:01 PM