Thursday, April 16, 2026

Writers Dilemma

 How do I write anything as horrifying or ridiculous as reality? When we tell stories we want to interest you. We fear the trite and banal. 

There was a child, Shane Tamura, who played football in high school. Later he decided that resultant brain injury had ruined his life. Being an American he got a rifle to shoot up NFL headquarters. But he got confused and shot up the wrong office. Did he laugh before he killed himself? Was he careful not to shoot his head?

Another child, Dick Cheney, decided he wasn’t cut out for lineman, academics or the law and went into government. He successfully supported executive expansion only to see the clown become president. The irony only apparent to him at the end of his life.

Charlie Kirk, a debate me bro raised prodigious money argued that we must have guns and being consistent, that meant that people would be killed for their opinions.  A fan agreed with him.

The worst court decision ever made. Supreme Court has decided that the president can have the court, themselves, killed. Even if it is legal, why would you say it?

Steve Miller, a red diaper baby caught in leftist divisions rejecting neo liberal reforms that perpetuate empire comes to the accelerationist view that you must make things worse to bring the revolution.

A nation so enamored of its entertainment and inured to obfuscation that it builds homes resembling stage sets and identifies with ridiculous protagonists. It’s bad enough that we completely miss the message of movies, adaptations of books purposely mislead for marketability. The point of The Natural was that everyone sells out. When the movie had a happy ending it reinforced the message of the book. If the movie had been faithful, it would have been a refutation. Likewise, the newest adaptation of Wuthering Heights can’t have a dark-skinned protagonist. By failing the movies are perversely faithful to the original works. Just as everyone should have the experience of firing a gun, everyone should attempt to write a story and realize that authors are playing dolls with characters they may actively dislike.

Just as Stephen Douglas brought on the Civil War, Hilary Clinton savagely defeated the socialists then sponsored the clown in a Manichean scheme to destroy the Republican party. She may succeed at the expense of the empire she professed to support.  

Is managed trade or unitary executive justification for physical correction?

All grist to the mill, you might say. But how far can reality stretch credulity?

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