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Whats does Mickey Mouse and the Swaztika have in common and what differences?
Posted by missgiggles in
12 May 2007 — 9:34am
12 May 2007 — 9:34am
Apart from them being the same colours and the fact that Hitler dipised the Jews and so did Walt Disney. They were both icons of the 1930's but the swaztika symbolised good luck. Is that true? and why would Hitler not allow students to wear the Micky Mouse badge when they were supporting Hitler? That's weird and he made them wear the swaztika instead. Did you know that Hitler was found with a Mickey mouse watch on? Hmmmm...so why did he get rid of Mickey mouse badges from students then? So back to my original question, they were both meant to be symbols but what of? Symbols of power? Were they both rebelious?
What about the crucifix and the swaztika? Do they have much more in common than that of Mickey mouse and the swaztika? I know that the swaztika is a bent cross from the religious cross so it derives from there but it was meant to be a symbol of well being. So from my knowledge, did the swaztika come before the cross or after but then it's confusing because they say that the swaztika derived from the cross so what came first? Anyone able to confirm?
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12 May 2007 — 11:07am
> the swaztika is a bent cross from the religious cross
No, it's much older than Christianity.
Although the cross as an "abstract" symbol is older still.
You might be interested in getting a copy of "The Cross as
Symbol & Ornament", J Troyer, 1961. The text of which
is all hand-lettered BTW (although it's not too much).
hhp
12 May 2007 — 11:19am
The swastika dates back to the neolithic period. The cross is probably an even older symbol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross
As for what these symbols "mean" it depends on whose ascribed meaning you're talking about, and when.
Cheers,
T
12 May 2007 — 1:20pm
Is this a joke?
Some questions are so dumb they are impossible to answer.
You should first try some basic research before posting a thread for discusion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research
12 May 2007 — 2:03pm
Dumber than any question is assuming a canned answer.
hhp
12 May 2007 — 3:09pm
No. It's true. I also heard that Mussalini had a cedar chest (hidden behind a bookcase in his private study) filled with rubber chickens (ancient symbol of bad wedding reception dinners) and seltzer bottles, although publicly, he claimed to hate Vaudeville.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_chicken
12 May 2007 — 5:56pm
I don't see any similarities at all.
12 May 2007 — 8:12pm
12 May 2007 — 8:19pm
Apart from them being the same colours and the fact that Hitler dipised the Jews and so did Walt Disney.
Wow, that line is SO much funnier than it should be.
Anyway, Walt Disney was a big Nazi sympathizer for a while when he was trying to get a German film distribution deal. It didn’t last. Anyway, you should have no trouble finding stuff about this if you start hitting up the libraries.
13 May 2007 — 3:03am
Why do some people on here think i am DUMB? I am certainly not what you think I am!!! By the way, sorry to those peopel who took it serious (unlike the silly peopel who did not! You know who you are.) Anyway, Thomas, you said that the cross would have come about before the swaztika. My research suggests that teh swaztika used to be a symbol of peace in Hinduism way before the cross but then the Nazi's turned it around, I think 90 degrees and used it.
Jpad, why would my line be soooo funny? I'm being straight to the point without any extra waffling. Is that meant to be funny? I don't know what's so wrong? i'm totally not with you. I really arn't.
Wormwood, maybe you're a joke! My question is defiantely realistic and there is definitely some connnection. Maybe you're just not aware of it in the contexual manner. Sorry but I had to mention that. it upsets me that people just think I am dumb, when in actual fact, i'm not! Sheeesh, what is the world coming to.
13 May 2007 — 3:24am
I don't think that you are dumb, and I hope that no one else here thinks that you are dumb either. I think that your ideas for your thesis are a bit too broad. This is something that happens or has happened to a lot of students—myself included. The trick is to narrow yourself down to one specific topic, and then discover the depth inside that and describe that well and persuasively. If you do that, your thesis will be great. Focus on one thing, though. You can't do everything! (nor should you!)
13 May 2007 — 6:41am
I didn't think you were dumb, either; I just didn't think you were serious. Your question sounded a lot more like someone having a bit of fun on a Saturday afternoon.
[an edit to show it can be done]
13 May 2007 — 7:14am
Sorry I did not mean to say that. I feel really bad now and I can't even delete it. Sorry, OMG! How could I say something like that. Sorry.
13 May 2007 — 7:48am
You can't delete it? I thought you said you weren't a blonde?
hhp
13 May 2007 — 8:01am
Dont want to upset any more people do I? an yup I can delete and have deleted it so :D
13 May 2007 — 8:02am
By the way, why is this post also on
http://dotsandloops.net/headlines/iid/347173
I wonder...and Ricardo, where did you find that image? Was it in an article? Have a look at this
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3409
Is Hitler's nose a Mickey Mouse nose in that image?
http://mickhartley.typepad.com/blog/2006/02/mickey_mouse_po.html
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Mickey%20Mouse
http://www.bertisevil.tv/pages/bert003.htm
So this question is not a joke, I can reassure you. I'm looking at in the contexual, historic manner which includes political too.
13 May 2007 — 8:42am
The swastika is an ancient symbol of sun, also a good luck symbol
See the history of the symbol of the Finnish air force pre-Hitler
http://www.sci.fi/~ambush/faf/faf.html
I know I've posted this before to the Darfur thread, there's more about the symbol there
http://typophile.com/node/31690
13 May 2007 — 8:48am
seen this poster with the swaztika on the tail? http://www.universityofthepoor.org/schools/artists/wwII/goebbels.htm
13 May 2007 — 8:54am
but i was serious about the rubber chickens and seltzer
13 May 2007 — 11:44am
I don’t think that you’re dumb, but sometimes your matter-of-fact way of stating things is amusing. It’s probably because I’m a pretentious fop who needs at least a paragraph to say much of anything.
13 May 2007 — 11:59am
Dyslexia aside Faz, if you put more care into the wording and spelling of your posts, and organized your thoughts a little more coherently, you might get taken more seriously here. I have said this before. Contrary to what you seem to think, I am not out to get you! It might help to listen to what people say instead of getting defensive.
Your curiosity and variety of interests is admirable and the last thing I want is to discourage you. But your posts read like you composed them on the fly, and yet you expect (and often get) extremely thoughtful responses from the patient folk on this forum. It's a two-way street.
13 May 2007 — 1:26pm
and the vaudeville
13 May 2007 — 4:53pm
I did not say YOU were dumb. Though there is evidence to suggest it...
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Full name: missgiggles
City: england
the swaztika used to be a symbol of peace in Hinduism way before the cross but then the Nazi’s turned it around, I think 90 degrees and used it.
Maybe I am a joke. I've often thought so.
Maybe you should think about losing that chip on your shoulder and how it got there in the first place.
13 May 2007 — 5:34pm
the youth of today...
13 May 2007 — 5:38pm
I don't know what you're driving at. England is one of my favorite cities.
Anyway, I would absolutely love to see gci footage of goose-stepping troops wearing Mickey Mouse insignia armbands. Could anything be better? (I'm being serious)
(I've decided to include the additive "I'm being serious" each time I actually AM being serious, so as to avoid confusion in the future)
13 May 2007 — 5:47pm
Anyway, I would absolutely love to see gci footage of goose-stepping troops wearing Mickey Mouse insignia armbands.
This post comes from that same parallel universe... ;-)
13 May 2007 — 5:55pm
13 May 2007 — 5:56pm
yes...
(I'm serious)
13 May 2007 — 6:02pm
the youth of today…
Don't you mean 'the Hitler Youth of today'?
footage of goose-stepping troops wearing Mickey Mouse insignia armbands
It sounds like something I may have already seen in some nu punk video.
13 May 2007 — 6:12pm
I think you may be thinking of Pink Floyd. Or maybe I'M thinking of Pink Floyd...
(i'm serious)
13 May 2007 — 6:21pm
Yeah, possibly the film version of 'The Wall'.
13 May 2007 — 6:40pm
This is just a statement:
My sides hurt.
(I'm serious)
13 May 2007 — 8:15pm
Wow, a single image with Nazism, Mickey Mouse, references to George Bush, AND fake condensed Comic Sans.
Only in a Miss Giggles thread...
13 May 2007 — 9:22pm
On the 90 degrees notes: Why are the Giggles in that picture coming from the wrong source and in the wrong direction?!
13 May 2007 — 10:25pm
Aziz, like I've said before, those are emanations of Gigglespeak. Highly toxic stuff.
(I'm not serious.)
14 May 2007 — 2:58am
Burj al-Arab
symbols of peace and love can also be found in many places.
The Tower of the Arabs greets boats approaching Dubai with a huge Christian cross.
14 May 2007 — 4:53am
Sadly, against the outward thereof most such places soft+mercy,
but the inward thereof thorns+chastisement?!
14 May 2007 — 10:04am
well, we did discuss the swastika in our mythologies course. The swastika has been used in three contexts(in history i mean).
In Hinduism, apart from luck its also a symbol of sorts of protection from evil.
If im right,It is also a part of Nordic culture. It stood for the unity/brotherhood and blah blah.
The national socialist party(germany) or the nazis, used the same cocept of brotherhood, twisted it to include racial superiority as well. And obviously, the swastika became infamous thanks to the nazis and Hitler.
As for the mickey mouse..no clue..
Shreyas
14 May 2007 — 10:18am
Don't overlook the Celtic triskelion, triple spiral, and running man symbols. They may only have three segments, but they're Indo-European solar and good luck symbols nonetheless. There's also the lauburu (Basque cross) and the Japanese tomoe.
Now, since there were three Axis members (ignoring, of course, the twenty-odd minor powers, co-belligerents, puppet states, and collaborator states), but the swastika has four legs, that can only mean that Hitler intended to enlist one more major power. Certainly, there were significant fascist and pro-German movements in the United States before WWII. Was Walt Disney Hitler's front man and subliminal propagandist in the United States?
Well, when Leni Riefenstahl went to the US in 1938 to try to make film deals, Walt Disney was the only studio head who met with her. This means you should look for hidden Mickeys* in Victory of the Faith, Triumph of the Will, Day of Freedom, Festive Nuremberg, Olympia, and Tiefland. You can use the Chryse Planitia or Cydonia filters in Photoshop to do so (these were originally developed by NASA to identify human faces on Mars**).
* http://www.hiddenmickeys.org/WhatIs.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Mickey
** http://www.marstoday.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=15245
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast24may_1.htm
14 May 2007 — 10:23am
Speaking of 3, there's also Terreblanche.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40260000/jpg/_40260627_terre1_ap_o...
hhp
14 May 2007 — 10:59am
I know that everyone on typophile is supposed to only provide constructive criticism, and that most everyone here is quite genteel, but I have to say that missgiggles's posts have only gotten more bizarre and demanding over the last six months, and I do not understand why someone who is asking for help is so frequently rude as well as unable to articulate even the most basic ideas.
14 May 2007 — 11:49am
'Bizarre'? It's not bizarre...food for thought you could say! By the way, who said you can't learn from someone not as experienced as you guys/women on here. I may be little in the design industry now but doesn't mean to say I don't have big ambitions... So am I still bizarre? Arn't designers suppose to be bizarre so they can come up with innovative designs and ideas etc? Hmmm...food for thought (I am serious)
14 May 2007 — 11:53am
I live for bizarre.
hhp
14 May 2007 — 12:03pm
Designers are supposed to be articulate and professional and communicate their ideas well. Designers are supposed to be able to take criticism along with encouragement and not stamp their feet and go on the attack when people offer constructive advice. Designers should be able to learn from their mistakes and not repeat them. Being bizarre is rather low on the list of qualities a successful designer should strive for. However, on this forum, I do find it endlessly entertaining. Swastikas and Mickey Mouse, why the hell not?
14 May 2007 — 12:05pm
Think Different - Bizarre:
markedly unusual in appearance, style, or general character and often involving incongruous or unexpected elements; outrageously or whimsically strange; odd: bizarre clothing; bizarre behavior. markedly unusual in appearance, style, or general character and often involving incongruous or unexpected elements; outrageously or whimsically strange; odd: bizarre clothing; bizarre behavior.
14 May 2007 — 12:09pm
You left out the bottom part:
—Synonyms weird, freakish, grotesque, ludicrous.
14 May 2007 — 1:34pm
Artists and Designers try to elevate the bottom parts and shoot for higher things
14 May 2007 — 1:48pm
The bottom part's the best part (of definitions, I mean)
(I'm only a little serious)
14 May 2007 — 1:51pm
Oh my god, this thread is so hilarious… Ms Giggles, your questioning technique is really unrivalled and beyond comparison. I also always admire the patience and the ›helper syndrome‹ of all the experts involved.
14 May 2007 — 2:40pm
Um. I must have been too subtle (a first if so). The second and third paragraphs of my first post are jokes.
14 May 2007 — 11:10pm
I think that was unmistakable, Gus.