When it comes to the regime’s rhetoric surrounding the events of January 6, 2021, it’s difficult to tell who is a true believer and who is an outright propagandist.
I wish I could remember the exact phrasing and saying, so I'll generalize. I heard something once about writing a story or play that is along the lines of "don't show the audience the dagger if you're not going to use it" that fits. It's probably apt here as most national politics is theater.
The normie right has been continually tricked by Con Inc flashing the dagger, but when it's time to actually act they show their true colors.
In "On Writing" Stephen King says something along the lines of "Don't mention there is a shotgun hanging on the wall if it is never going to be used" or something like that. Maybe that's where you read it or maybe he stole it from someone else. Interesting book because it has some genuinely insightful stuff in it that he absolutely doesn't follow in his own trashy novels.
King is referencing Chekov's Gun in that passage. The quote the OP is referring to was probably the same source, a Russian playwright. The point is that every element introduced into a story should serve the overall narrative. Not only are you otherwise wasting the audience's time since it doesn't add to the story, but the implicit agreement between author and reader is that if the author raises a question in the reader's mind, the reader can rely on it being answered. Without which you get... Stephen King's meandering irrelevancies. Or basically all millennial writing. Strange that he even referred to it. Maybe he was relating a hard-won lesson.
I wouldn't have made the connection to political narratives, but now that I'm thinking about it, it's apt. Good point, bizz.
I think he is just that lacking in introspection he also talks a lot about the importance of editing which is something his books are borderline infamous for not doing a good job at. There is all sorts of little degenerate things added into them that add nothing to the story basically without fail. I remember reading Salems Lot years ago and there is a whole page dedicated to a character who is never mentioned again going home after work and raping his wife. It serves absolutely no purpose, it doesn't even build atmosphere or tension.
I was ranting the other day to a friend that King's stories read as if he wrote a bunch of random boomerlib meme scenes, threw them in a hat and plucked them at random and then stitched them together into a semi-coherent story. Coming off having just watched Chapelwaite (Salem's Lot) and then Pet Semetary as a chaser.
Particularly his bizarre takes on religious figures; I don't mind the corrupt priest or religion-as-a-front tropes but his reads on them are just nonsensical. The guy drives me nuts. I have _On Writing_ on my shelf but never could get through the whole thing for the same reason.
Anyway I'd better stop before this turns into an essay.
It takes courage to speak the truth in an empire of lies. The 32 trillion $ deficit isn't the main problem. The real problem is the courage deficit. Going along to get along will never result in any kind of change. We live in a nation of cow eyed twatwaffles
There are no moral victories in politics, only real victories and real losses.
I wish I could remember the exact phrasing and saying, so I'll generalize. I heard something once about writing a story or play that is along the lines of "don't show the audience the dagger if you're not going to use it" that fits. It's probably apt here as most national politics is theater.
The normie right has been continually tricked by Con Inc flashing the dagger, but when it's time to actually act they show their true colors.
In "On Writing" Stephen King says something along the lines of "Don't mention there is a shotgun hanging on the wall if it is never going to be used" or something like that. Maybe that's where you read it or maybe he stole it from someone else. Interesting book because it has some genuinely insightful stuff in it that he absolutely doesn't follow in his own trashy novels.
That is more than likely my source! Thank you!
King is referencing Chekov's Gun in that passage. The quote the OP is referring to was probably the same source, a Russian playwright. The point is that every element introduced into a story should serve the overall narrative. Not only are you otherwise wasting the audience's time since it doesn't add to the story, but the implicit agreement between author and reader is that if the author raises a question in the reader's mind, the reader can rely on it being answered. Without which you get... Stephen King's meandering irrelevancies. Or basically all millennial writing. Strange that he even referred to it. Maybe he was relating a hard-won lesson.
I wouldn't have made the connection to political narratives, but now that I'm thinking about it, it's apt. Good point, bizz.
I think he is just that lacking in introspection he also talks a lot about the importance of editing which is something his books are borderline infamous for not doing a good job at. There is all sorts of little degenerate things added into them that add nothing to the story basically without fail. I remember reading Salems Lot years ago and there is a whole page dedicated to a character who is never mentioned again going home after work and raping his wife. It serves absolutely no purpose, it doesn't even build atmosphere or tension.
I was ranting the other day to a friend that King's stories read as if he wrote a bunch of random boomerlib meme scenes, threw them in a hat and plucked them at random and then stitched them together into a semi-coherent story. Coming off having just watched Chapelwaite (Salem's Lot) and then Pet Semetary as a chaser.
Particularly his bizarre takes on religious figures; I don't mind the corrupt priest or religion-as-a-front tropes but his reads on them are just nonsensical. The guy drives me nuts. I have _On Writing_ on my shelf but never could get through the whole thing for the same reason.
Anyway I'd better stop before this turns into an essay.
It takes courage to speak the truth in an empire of lies. The 32 trillion $ deficit isn't the main problem. The real problem is the courage deficit. Going along to get along will never result in any kind of change. We live in a nation of cow eyed twatwaffles