Tag: Ethics
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Evil’s Too Smart To ‘Billboard Itself’; That’s Why It Births Itself In Banality…
Maybe it’s ‘my’ fault… ‘Our‘ fault if I include the rest of my screenwriting ‘tribe’. I could widen the tribe out to include anyone and everyone who ever helped make a movie that gave an audience the notion that Evil is BILLBOARD OBVIOUS the moment it ‘walks on stage’. Alas, if only more of my…
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Maybe Our Takeaway From Trumpism SHOULD Be: We Didn’t Punish Richard Nixon Nearly Hard Enough
There is a direct link between Richard Nixon and Donald J Trump. Or should I say links… There’s the ‘thematic’ one of course — the ‘Country Club Authoritarianism’ personified by Roger Stone… …that views American political norms and anyone not in their club with disdain and disgust. This is the ‘Silent Majority’ part of the link…
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Here’s The Question: Is Integrity Dead?
You can chip away at a lot of things — and still have them. Living in California as I do, ‘Paradise’ comes to mind. There’s that lyric to that great Eagles song (the last cut on ‘Hotel California’) “The Last Resort”: “They called it ‘Paradise’, I don’t know why… Call someplace ‘Paradise’ — Kiss it…
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Disruption Good, Disruption Bad
We’ll never get to know — those of us living in the ‘Right Here Right Now’ — how our Time will be perceived by those who come long after us. Perspective sucks that way. To get the really, really good perspective — well, ‘You can’t there from here’ (as the say up in Maine). We…
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Integrity Is An All Or Nothing Proposition
My kids, when they were little, wanted to do a hundred things each day — because, in their minds, it was possible to spend the same time doing two completely different things. It wasn’t, of course. Invariably we had to make choices about what we wanted to do with our time — because the Truth…