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We are still a great people.......at least outside the D.C. Swamp.
It is not only the worse of times that bring out the best in is. It is also the best of times that make us aware that we built that. If times are good it is because we made them good wit our and work and attention to principles.
We genuinely need to get over the globalist conceit of elitism. We are the elite, not some popinjay on a TV screen. My plumber is the elite. Without him we drown in our own filth. We do fine, in fact better, without the pretensions of an empty headed politician.
Our heroes are in Houston today but they will be right back here tomorrow.
“The media doesn’t quite know what to make of the rescuers”......
Indeed we are GOOD PEOPLE! The media doesn’t like to report “Good News” because it doesn’t sell, they admit that themselves. It’s easier to “create” news than to actually report the truth.
Liberals moan and ask others to help them and to "empathize" with them while real folks roll up their sleeves and git 'er dun....
Excellent article. I disagree with his point about literature. The idea of the Great American Novel was an aspect of the power of New York critics. New York critics don’t have the power they once did - not with cheap publishing and distribution and electronic communications allowing anyone to publish a review.
More books published means more garbage, of course, but it also means that one can read many good novels every year and many good nonfiction books.
His complaint about movies also runs up against technological change. Yes, comic-book and action spectacles lack depth, but television allows for the kind of development that is very difficult to accomplish in the two hours of a feature film. The proliferation of distribution channels and the disappearance of gatekeepers/bottlenecks means a lot of good “film” (I date myself ...) finds an audience, as does a lot of garbage.
Brilliant piece. Thanks for posting it.
Leftists are responsible for every deviancy in our culture. In the name of social justice they destroyed the foundation of all republics, the civil society.
Depends on who you mean by 'we'.
This is precisely the war being waged by Trump. Civil society must be wrenched from the grasp of the left and restored to its proper vantage as a bulwark of Christian life.
In just the past 2-3 years, two of the best-written TV drams (well, in my opinion) ever, concluded. Breaking Bad and Mad Men were outstanding examinations of the human psyche, delving into the human condition. Yes, they were riddled with violence and, with Mad Men, sex, and we're not for the faint of heart - this was not TV for the family. But the writing was excellent and the character development gave us characters that serve as an ugly mirror, a sort of "get thee to Church lest ye become like them" event.
It is very fashionable to look back to the good old days and say our best is behind us. And, to be sure, there is a lot of dreck out there and there isn't anything like Veggie Tales for kids, and I can't recall any memorable film coming out in a LONG time. That said, I see Trump's election, the stiffening backbone of Deplorables against the media's bashing of all that is good, and, yes, shows like those that I mentioned as indicators that all is not lost and that maybe, just maybe, the best is yet to come. The good nature of mankind coming out in Texas is further evidence of that point.
“Depends on who you mean by ‘we’.”
Exactly. But we must not utter the truth.
Yes, and it always has been. "Golden agers," I call those writers whose premise is, "Things were ideal in (fill in year), and they could be again, if only we can put everything back the way it was in (year)."
Pish-tosh. Change is inevitable. Some of it will be good and some not-good, but many things are better today than they were in (year), and I think the overall state of writing and "film" is one of them.
Indeed, we yell at our cell phones when a call drops, yet we fail to marvel at being able to speak to another human thousands of miles away as we roll down the interstate. Or we curse up a storm when the remote control doesn’t work/won’t let us order a movie (film?) immediately, without simply being happy that we don’t need to change the TV channel with needle-nose pliers anymore.
What has been going on in regards to the rescuing of both people and animals in the Houston area “ silences “ once and for all the nonsense of the protesters.
Do what???
An excellent and extraordinary article. Mr Greenfield’s writing unearth’s the truth of things. Thanks for posting.
Have you noticed that the left has been silenced by what has been going on in Houston?
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