[astazangasta]

I agree we can learn from studying Riefenstahl, and also that the film is amazing, but i deny that we are learning about "human nature", a concept which I generally abhor and which is used to end sociological arguments at a desired point.

My koan about human nature comes from my child, who at 18 months, just barely after talking, was able to sustain the notion of video chat with no real instruction - that is, that the image in the wall that was speaking to him was a person he could interact with. Nothing in the evolutionary background prepared him for this. If there is a "human nature" it is to be pliant to an ever-changing circumstance.