> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Nick Arnett > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 2:57 PM > To: Killer Bs Discussion > Subject: Re: U.S. health care > > On 5/23/07, Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > This problem is a good one for discussion here. However, it will not be > > solved by polemics that provide simple stories with heroes and villains > > like > > that provided by Moore. There is a hard way out for this, just no easy > > way > > out. > > > You don't think there's a place for simple stories in the political > process?
Depends on the story. I would place Moore's story telling with the "young buck buying steak with food stamps story." There was a documentary at the South by Southwest film festival (I think I got the name right) in Austin, by self-proclaimed leftists, on Moore. One tidbit about his technique is that he did get an interview of the "Roger" in Roger and me. It didn't fit his film, so he didn't include it. >Seems to me that simple stories often have been the most powerful > means of changing a system. For example, what does the name "Rose Parks" > refer, but a simple story illustrative of a systemic problem? Simple > stories bring big issues home, don't they? Simple true stories that go to the heart of the matter, do. Polemic films, like birth of a nation, don't. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
