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The End Result of the WGA/SAG-AFTRA Strikes, Against the AMPTP, Should Be SHARED GOVERNANCE

As Readers of this Blog know, this Blogger’s Father was a Union Organizer, a Trotskyite. As Readers of this Blog know; there is a strike in the Entertainment Industry, writers have been on strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, since May 2, 2023. The Alliance represents studios, film companies, television producers and streamers that produce entertainment. Actors have been on strike since July 14, 2023. As this Blog is being written, economists are estimating the strikes will cost the American economy, in excess of 5 Billion Dollars. As this Blog is being written, Drew Barrymore has turned scab. The strike has been rancorous; with the strikers thinking they are Red Neck West Virginia miners on the way to the Battle of Blair Mountain; and the Alliance    chiefs thinking they are the mine owners, ordering the slaughter of miners during the Colorado Coalfield War, the Ludlow Massacre. The Alliance has openly wished that the actors and writers would lose th

Intellectual Diane Ehrensaft Takes America from George Orwell Mercy to Pol Pot Killing Fields

 T his Blogger is a devoted admirer of George Orwell; both for his art and for his personal code of ethics. For his art, his brilliant tomes, ANIMAL FARM, which revealed Bolshevism, to be only the substitution of a new oligarchy for an old one; and 1984, which gave the world an understanding of GROUP THINK; so the world could understand 2023 Liberalism. On a personal level, this Blogger has always admired Orwell’s personal code of conduct; during the Spanish Civil War, Orwell fought as a Republican. He had an enemy soldier in his sights; but the enemy began to urinate and Orwell could not kill him while he was so vulnerable. This Blogger was taught the best assassinations occur in the toilet; the Romans assassinated their Emperor Caracalla, while he was urinating. Orwell had a lot of class; and a lot of smarts. He understood the 2023 intellectual class; his dictum was:   'Some  ideas  are so  stupid  that  only   intellectuals believe them.' In 2023, America is experie