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Monday, July 4, 2022

AMERICA IS A LADDER WITH BLADES FOR RUNGS_IWSG Post

 



The sickest Frank Capra said he ever got was traveling in steerage as a boy to America.


The most thrilled he ever got was when as a boy he looked from the deck to see the Statue of Liberty.


All of his movies were love letters to America in some form or fashion.


When the government asked him to make a series of documentaries to persuade a reluctant public of the danger of Nazi Germany.


Senator Joe McCarthy hated IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE.

Why?

The part involving the maligning of fat-cat banker and slumlord Henry Potter. 

While Bailey (who lends money to the working poor) is the movie’s hero.

Henry Potter (who focuses on the financial bottom line alone) is the villain. 

According to an FBI’s memo, portraying a capitalist in such a negative light was a classic communist trick.


The Senate's Witch Hunt into Hollywood disillusioned Frank Capra who made few movies afterwards.


WHAT HAS ALL THIS TO DO WITH WRITING
 YOU MAY ASK


We have a unique chance to observe Humanity in a crucible of irrational thought, stress, and sociological pressures.




  
Look over the past 100 years and see who burned books,

shouted down opposing thoughts,

punished those who spoke out against Lawlessness hiding under the guise of Law.


Who uses the cover of night to do
what they do not possess
the votes to do legally? 

The Mob knows no Rule of Law ...
Which is all right ...

Until they come for you.


McCarthyism is alive and well ... just in another political party.







 Does humor have a place when writing in a time of crisis?

Especially then, don't you think? 


 You will never again have this opportunity to write while the world around you is at war with itself.  

Don't waste this chance.


 People are scared. It’s understandable.

 Our health and well-being are on the line. And our political foundations seem to be unraveling. 


But if you set your sails counter to the prevailing winds and stay the course, you may produce a novel of outstanding worth.


12 comments:

  1. Now it is those who will bury you for not agreeing with them...

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  2. Well said.
    It's a Wonderful Life doesn't get the credit it deserves, sneaking in each year as just a Christmas movie with a lesson on suicide prevention. Really, there is SO MUCH MORE of that movie to parody, a great deal of which is still true, maybe even more true, right now in America.

    For the IWSG July prompt asking which book world I would live in, I narrowed it down to three choices.
    One is a short-story I published. One is from a popular series. And one is better known from television, but there are books. It's all on my blog.
    Today's Google Doodle g.co/doodle/5m9rrry This is a tribute to Charlie Hill of the Oneida Nation, the first Native American stand-up comedian to be on a nationally broadcast television show.
    Over at Operation Awesome, our Pass or Pages query contest is open this week with July's family saga genre. Know any writers who might want to enter?


    J Lenni Dorner (he/him 👨🏽 or 🧑🏽 they/them) ~ Co-host of the #AtoZchallenge, OperationAwesome6 Debut Author Interviewer, Reference& Speculative Fiction Author

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  3. I am delighted that Charlie Hill was recognized by Google. Books romanticize so many time periods that going back in real time would be real jarring! Thanks for visiting, J Lenni.

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  4. And now communism and socialism are trying to do in capitalism.

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  5. America will never run out of enemies at the gate, but the worst enemies are those within our walls. :-(

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  6. A devastating state of affairs indeed. Very well said!

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    1. As long there are those of us whose center holds, hope is not lost, right, Damyanti? :-)

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  7. Well said. And it's not just the US in a mess, but the entire world. Interesting how it all evolved at the same time, isn't it? I'm staying the course.

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    1. At the beginning of the 20th century, Spanish Flu swept the globe, the world suffered from global depression, the Dust Bowl withered the mid-west, dictators from Italy, Japan, Russia, and Germany killed so many. 100 years later seems to have brought an eerie encore. Sigh. Thanks for visiting, Gwen.

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  8. You expressed it vividly, Roland: America is a ladder with blades for rungs. I never thought I would see our country and our world in such a state. I thought we had learned from the 20th century. Silly, idealistic me. Have a happy July!

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  9. Mankind as a whole seems never to learn - only individuals ever seem to learn. Fundy Blue, you have a great July, too. :-)

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