I don't know if the powers that be have noticed, but I think Uri Berliner's editorial has already provoked more comments than any piece the TFP has ever run. At least in the last half-year or so.
Yet another movie with a primary image of some adulteration of the Statue of Liberty isn't important in the slightest. That trope should have en…
I don't know if the powers that be have noticed, but I think Uri Berliner's editorial has already provoked more comments than any piece the TFP has ever run. At least in the last half-year or so.
Yet another movie with a primary image of some adulteration of the Statue of Liberty isn't important in the slightest. That trope should have ended with the innovative Planet of the Apes decades ago. We are not headed in any way toward a Civil War. People have too much to lose and the vast majority of us actually see good in others - even others we sometimes disagree with politically.
Uri's piece, though... he nails what's important. He may be too close to the fire to fully understand why, because he thinks NPR is fixable. But he gets it.
I think that sentiment is more characteristic of the FP readership.
As a (center-right) blue city native transplanted to a bright red county, I think the divisions are too big to ignore. I'm in NE PA, about a mile away from the NY state line. Watching the discontent across the river in upstate NY has been a real eye opener as to the fracture between urban and rural areas. I can't see how forcing far left policies and taxes on rural areas is sustainable. Sullivan and Delaware Counties dodged a bullet with their bans on illegal immigrant housing being upheld- further infrastructure stress at the behest of downstaters could have been the flashpoint.
Perhaps we re-draw the state boundaries and allow federalism to save our great nation?
Aqua America has set itself up in my county seat, eventually they’ll try expanding. 250 years of well water here, I don’t want monthly bills or added fluoride!
That’s so meta! How does one know one’s story has gone viral? When people comment on it in the comments on other stories. Jim’s absolutely right. Calling out instances where writers, directors, producers, etc fail to acknowledge the obvious fissures in our society are sadly missing important opportunities. Way to go FP!
Jim right on point. The irony is Charleton Heston pointed it out in film on The Planet of the Apes in 1968. The innovation in film or trope occurred 56 years ago. The arrested development of Hollywood writing and the SAG Union is stuck like an unplugged turd in a broken intellectual toilet right there. The political rhetoric and those who created it are largely using colostomy bags today... yet every kid at Reed College, Oberlin and the Ivy League think they are cutting edge on art and political commentary.
Also, from this perspective I am wondering where Suzy W. is coming from writing this piece.
I don't know if the powers that be have noticed, but I think Uri Berliner's editorial has already provoked more comments than any piece the TFP has ever run. At least in the last half-year or so.
Yet another movie with a primary image of some adulteration of the Statue of Liberty isn't important in the slightest. That trope should have ended with the innovative Planet of the Apes decades ago. We are not headed in any way toward a Civil War. People have too much to lose and the vast majority of us actually see good in others - even others we sometimes disagree with politically.
Uri's piece, though... he nails what's important. He may be too close to the fire to fully understand why, because he thinks NPR is fixable. But he gets it.
I just saw NPR's response, which can be summed up as "We're pleased with ourselves and are changing nothing."
I think that sentiment is more characteristic of the FP readership.
As a (center-right) blue city native transplanted to a bright red county, I think the divisions are too big to ignore. I'm in NE PA, about a mile away from the NY state line. Watching the discontent across the river in upstate NY has been a real eye opener as to the fracture between urban and rural areas. I can't see how forcing far left policies and taxes on rural areas is sustainable. Sullivan and Delaware Counties dodged a bullet with their bans on illegal immigrant housing being upheld- further infrastructure stress at the behest of downstaters could have been the flashpoint.
Perhaps we re-draw the state boundaries and allow federalism to save our great nation?
I hear you!
Aqua America has set itself up in my county seat, eventually they’ll try expanding. 250 years of well water here, I don’t want monthly bills or added fluoride!
In some states it’s apparently illegal to collect rainwater. 🤦♂️Rainwater!
Colorado
So batshit. Makes me want to become an illegal rainwater distributor🥸
That’s so meta! How does one know one’s story has gone viral? When people comment on it in the comments on other stories. Jim’s absolutely right. Calling out instances where writers, directors, producers, etc fail to acknowledge the obvious fissures in our society are sadly missing important opportunities. Way to go FP!
Jim right on point. The irony is Charleton Heston pointed it out in film on The Planet of the Apes in 1968. The innovation in film or trope occurred 56 years ago. The arrested development of Hollywood writing and the SAG Union is stuck like an unplugged turd in a broken intellectual toilet right there. The political rhetoric and those who created it are largely using colostomy bags today... yet every kid at Reed College, Oberlin and the Ivy League think they are cutting edge on art and political commentary.
Also, from this perspective I am wondering where Suzy W. is coming from writing this piece.