Three weeks in now and I still haven't found an effective approach to this blogging thing (at least as far as promoting my books is concerned, I had quite a following under my alter ego when I blogged about politics.)
The average reader isn't much interested in the writing process so writing about the nuts and bolts of writing isn't gaining me much of a following, but I tend to doubt I can turn the politically disenfranchised into readers of my prose (despite it being laced with alternatives to the current fiasco we're saddled with.)
Which is to address the elephant in the room, if we don't actively discuss alternatives we won't be able to effect the changes we all desperately need.
Our civilization is colossally mismanaged and we, the victims of this mismanagement, are powerless to change it.
While those with the wherewithal to run for political office feign ignorance of what their constituents want (justifying their unpopular support for the agenda of their campaign's major donors...) The rest of us wonder aloud about how we can repair an obviously broken system, while ignoring that the first step towards addressing our problems is being denied to us by the profit driven wingnut (emphasis on the 'nut'!)
How we fix this without a rallying point is obvious...we don't. Those who bar rational discussion ferment revolt!
Which is to ask just how much of our current ride on the 'crazy train' is intentional?
The inability to organize leads to our collective doom at the hands of those who would take it all for themselves.
The premise of my first novel is what would happen if our government was seized by criminals and they decided to push us into our own sewer to cement their rule?
Understand, good citizen. You have already had your right to peacefully assemble revoked. Long ago your ability to petition your government was 'delegated' to 'aides' (whose job it is to placate you.)
More interestingly, YOU (nor your forebearers) asked for a 'representative' government...they thought they would have a 'voice' and it was only after the fact that they learned they had voted to let someone else speak for them without ever consulting them.
Problem is good citizen, we have no way to 'fix' this little 'unexpected' bit of treachery.
Will we sit helplessly as we watch the last vestiges of what used to be our freedoms snatched away from us in the name of 'national security?'
Remember good citizen, only rogues and scoundrels require the cloak of secrecy. Small wonder that conservatives are zealous defenders not of freedom but of 'privacy'...there's mostly...you can't be trusted.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
(Gegner)
The average reader isn't much interested in the writing process so writing about the nuts and bolts of writing isn't gaining me much of a following, but I tend to doubt I can turn the politically disenfranchised into readers of my prose (despite it being laced with alternatives to the current fiasco we're saddled with.)
Which is to address the elephant in the room, if we don't actively discuss alternatives we won't be able to effect the changes we all desperately need.
Our civilization is colossally mismanaged and we, the victims of this mismanagement, are powerless to change it.
While those with the wherewithal to run for political office feign ignorance of what their constituents want (justifying their unpopular support for the agenda of their campaign's major donors...) The rest of us wonder aloud about how we can repair an obviously broken system, while ignoring that the first step towards addressing our problems is being denied to us by the profit driven wingnut (emphasis on the 'nut'!)
How we fix this without a rallying point is obvious...we don't. Those who bar rational discussion ferment revolt!
Which is to ask just how much of our current ride on the 'crazy train' is intentional?
The inability to organize leads to our collective doom at the hands of those who would take it all for themselves.
The premise of my first novel is what would happen if our government was seized by criminals and they decided to push us into our own sewer to cement their rule?
Understand, good citizen. You have already had your right to peacefully assemble revoked. Long ago your ability to petition your government was 'delegated' to 'aides' (whose job it is to placate you.)
More interestingly, YOU (nor your forebearers) asked for a 'representative' government...they thought they would have a 'voice' and it was only after the fact that they learned they had voted to let someone else speak for them without ever consulting them.
Problem is good citizen, we have no way to 'fix' this little 'unexpected' bit of treachery.
Will we sit helplessly as we watch the last vestiges of what used to be our freedoms snatched away from us in the name of 'national security?'
Remember good citizen, only rogues and scoundrels require the cloak of secrecy. Small wonder that conservatives are zealous defenders not of freedom but of 'privacy'...there's mostly...you can't be trusted.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
(Gegner)
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