I’ll be the first journalist that visits there and doesn’t mention Kafka.”Īfter the police kicked in their meeting, moments after it began, the author asked the secret police, “what’s the charge?” A related quote that fits the same line of abstract thought.Īfter being sent to the Czech Republic, then Czechoslovakia, to investigate an underground resistance paper that opposed the existing guard Christopher Hitchens made the promise: “I’m not going to do it. Nuance is simply subtle differences in interpretation or expression, and tyranny is almost uniformly obsessed with uniformity. Here Albert meant that tyranny was an attempt to remove thoughtfulness, creativity, and self-expression from society (often through physical oppression) at the expense of originality. With a background in psychology, who pursued and received his undergraduate degrees and masters in the field at Syracuse and Boston University respectively, Albert was deeply interested in the relationship between the mind and art. Some of their most known films include the documentaries Salesman (1969), Gimme Shelter (1970), and Grey Gardens which was released in 1975. Of the Maysles brothers, he was probably the more articulate and thoughtful of the legendary film brothers. What did Maysles mean by the ‘deliberate removal of nuance’?Īlbert Maysles was an undoubtedly legendary documentary filmmaker.
It need be noted that we are still looking for the exact timing and location of the first time the quote is used but in the meantime, Maysles lived from November 26, 1926, to his death on March 5, 2015. Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance. Many may be quick to point the context of the media for the force behind the comment, but we think it admits to a deeper interpretation. This well-cited quote came from the legendary documentary Albert Maysles that uncovers a deep truth in the miscarriages of justice to society that tyranny creates.
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