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“Not at the Expense of the Leftist Cause” | KyleSmithOnline.com — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:23:19 +0000

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By: Darkwolf

Darkwolf — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:52:55 +0000

"I knew it! I'm surrounded by Assholes!"

~ Dark Helmet, Spaceballs

By: Tennwriter

Tennwriter — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:42:35 +0000

One problem many of my fellow writers don't get is that there are many types of stories to tell. We need Conservative high art, and Conservative low art (even if I don't like those terms). We need stories about a Taliban choking Marine (wasn't it weird that Team America: World Police was a satire of a movie sub-genre that did not exist?), and thumbsuckers about earnest liberals becoming conservative warriors, and every other possible sub-sub-genre.

Your suggestion for a story is what I call 'flipping around' which is where we take a liberal idea, and reimagine it as a conservative idea. It would be a good thing to write a list of the Hundred Most Influential Liberal Pics, and then sit down and start coming up with ways to 'flip them around'. Supposedly Tolkien unmade Wagner's ring of power with LOTR. We need to do likewise. Unmake the liberal furniture in our minds, break it down, and replace it with ideas that are true and cool or true and beautiful. One benefit, not the greatest one, will be to give us shorthand symbols to use in arguements.

By: Tennwriter

Tennwriter — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:42:06 +0000

Glenn,
I agree with your larger point. We need some sort of training ground with support in order to develop new writers and movie guys.

But, a character arc is not the only way to tell a story. Louis L'amour talked about how the critics did not like his novels because his characters did not change. But thats a valid story–the hero is right, and he has to plow through the wicked. And he was enormously popular with the readers, if not the critics.

By: Thorien

Thorien — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:26:21 +0000

OMG do it. There's a lot of potential there. When this CSMonitor reporter was kidnapped (in Iraq, I think) a couple years ago, her captors watched Tom and Jerry. I think, from the comfort of our faux-suede couches, that could be hilarious.

By: Thorien

Thorien — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:24:23 +0000

Um, I would watch that.

By: Thorien

Thorien — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:20:52 +0000

Presidents should never be kings. How could they, without discovering they're some heirless king/queen so-and-so's long lost 2nd cousin, andprobably renouncing their American citizenship? I think they could accept a title (with the approval of Congress) but not become king. And they should certainly never be kings of America!

By: El_Gordo

El_Gordo — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:34:15 +0000

"And don't act like you know me, man."

It´s the internet. How can you be sure I´m a man?