Monthly Archives: November 2010

The Three Pillars of Conservatism: Fear, Greed, and Anger

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Every election cycle, we get to have a lingering look up the skirts of conservative dancers who tease the audience with alternating glimpses of their puritan knickers and their pasty white backsides. It is at once revolting yet fascinating in a sick kind of way.  Where are those dollar bills I brought …

Conservative Americans have made a virtue of fear, greed, and anger. This is one of the pure, crystalline forces of history. The Three Pillars of Conservatism.

Liberals fail in politics because they inherently misunderstand power and how it works. Conservatives have an innate grasp of power and suffer little from its wanton and extravagant use.  One never hears conservatives praising the ideals of the Greek thinkers. Conservatives are much more like Romans. The Romans made a show of conquest and of alignment to the doctrine and virtue of empire. Romans understood the value of bread and circuses. And that is what we get today every election cycle. A circus.

Notes from the stage

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Our community theatre project has gone from a spare time activity to the Monster that Ate Philadelphia.  Producing, directing, and acting in a production is somewhat more strenuous than it looks. Much more so when you have little budget and multiple jobs. 

The off-stage activity requires some acting as well. You have to convince actors and crew to set aside their natural suspicions and work without pay. You have to coerce local media to cover your upcoming production for free. You have to find lights, props, and materials for stagecraft. And you have to compel the public to plant their ticketed backsides in the seats. All in exchange for an evening of what you’re proposing to call entertainment.

Rehearsals have been brutal.  We have a cast of 19 for You Can’t Take it With You. Turns out that the probability of everyone showing up at any given rehearsal is somewhat less than unity.  Set construction from bare lumber and recycled flats to assembled and decorated flats has taken perhaps a hundred manhours with all of the running around.

Why do it?  Well, it’s Show Business!  What kind of a question is that?