This short subject concerns itself with a program in San Francisco . It took young men and put them to work on programs to fix up houses, help bedridden patients, and similar tasks. Various people talk in the soundtrack, speaking in terms of the era's progressive movement, emphasizing that money for this program comes from government, private funds, and church funds. It also claims that the program has no political agenda, and then begins to speak of its political agenda.
It's little glitches like that, which people who are not in on the contemporary societal assumptions, can use to locate those assumptions. We can applaud the program, agree with its methods, but recognize that the presentation betrays a particular political philosophy because sixty years later, those are not the standards of our day. It betrays a tunnel vision on the part of the film makers, to assume that their current normative values are the eternally correct ones. It's a fallacy people still are prey to.
It's little glitches like that, which people who are not in on the contemporary societal assumptions, can use to locate those assumptions. We can applaud the program, agree with its methods, but recognize that the presentation betrays a particular political philosophy because sixty years later, those are not the standards of our day. It betrays a tunnel vision on the part of the film makers, to assume that their current normative values are the eternally correct ones. It's a fallacy people still are prey to.