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The Last King of Scotland
2006 · Film · 123 min
Directed by Kevin Macdonald
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.
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I remember reading a book on the Columbine shooter, and on some level I imagined evil, but a coherent evil, and it really was not, it was quite nonsensical and inconsistent. It was like 4chan logic.
I think when at the surrounding facts - a group of people who talk anti-woke but don’t seem to make a distinction between Jackie Robinson and “all white people are racist”, or willing to ignore every last economist in favor of blanket tariffs, or hiring a Fox News host to run your DOD in the first place! You’re telling me there aren’t enough conservative minds to choose from, in the fucking military! the simplest solution is that there isn’t a coherent ideology.
I think this makes sense, that sort of evil isn’t rational, but we’re so used to movie villains with a coherent ideology I think it poisons the reality. Go watch “The Last King of Scotland”. Idi Amin was the whole bag of nuts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Entebbe
Such a gruesome story: Kenyan sources supported Israel, and in the aftermath of the operation, Idi Amin issued orders to retaliate and slaughter several hundred Kenyans then present in Uganda. There were 245 Kenyans in Uganda killed and 3,000 fled.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_Amin
Amin first escaped to Libya, where he stayed until 1980, and ultimately settled in Saudi Arabia, where the Saudi royal family allowed him sanctuary and paid him a generous subsidy in return for staying out of politics.[18] Amin lived for a number of years on the top two floors of the Novotel Hotel on Palestine Road in Jeddah.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455590/
Movie The Last King of Scotland is Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.
> I think the larger lesson here is that confidence is > a good thing, but relying on it solely can fail miserably > as a substitute for having actual knowledge about > something.
How should the coach have audited the correctness of answers that he himself didn't know the answer to? Should he put his confidence in answer that the person answering wasn't confident in?
I'm reminded of the film "The last King of Scotland":
[Idi Amin] I want you to tell me what to do.
[Nicholas Garrigan] You want ME to tell YOU what to do? [Idi Amin] Yes, you are my advisor. You are the only one I can trust in here. You should have told me not to throw the Asians out, in the first place.
[Nicholas Garrigan] I DID!
[Idi Amin] But you did not persuade me, Nicholas. You did not persuade me!
It's really not enough to be right. You must convince others that you are right.
Couldn't stop reading! It reminds of "The Last King of Scotland" movie - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455590/ about Idi Amin's personal physician.