You're starting to lose me. The minutea of the meeting seems derailed from the energy and flow up to that point. Also, trying to keep track of 10 characters at one time is too difficult for my ageing brain. As mentioned before, the excessive footnotes and the alternate scripts and tiny font notes are distracting and take away from the enjoyment of the read.
I quite liked the change of pace, particularly how effectively it showed the new order of things. Would be interesting to see how Boomers of the Republican stripe would rationalize things.
LIRA this book is insightfully brilliant! Keep up the good work.
Fact is stranger than fiction because fiction has to at least sound believable.
For 17 months, New York police officer Adrian Schoolcraft recorded himself and his fellow officers on the job, including their supervisors ordering them to do all sorts of things that police aren't supposed to do. For example, downgrading real crimes into lesser ones, so they wouldn't show up in the crime statistics and make their precinct look bad.. ACT TWO. IS THAT A TAPE RECORDER IN YOUR POCKET, OR ARE YOU JUST UNHAPPY TO SEE ME?
But #1, I find the "alternate script and tiny font notes" both creative and ingenious and enjoy reading them, like a detailed supplement they flesh out the main storyline. Mr. Lira, I'm a heavy reader but I've never read anything quite like this before. I look forward to your next posted pages.
G. On your footnote on page 114, "dodging the lottery" you have it backwards, the lower the number, the more likely that you would be drafted.
Also on page 127,it should be It "turns" not It "turn" into the pale gray road.
I have enjoyed your writings, quite a different look at the state of affairs and their causes from what is offerd in the mainstream media. I especially enjoyed "Has America Become a Police State", and quite agree with you. This latest chapter, that the boomers are to blame based on their fears and "feeling unsafe", is certainly food for thought. I hope that you give more copy to the real reasons for our government entropy, just look at the Post Office for example, so many overpaid employees, enjoying to many benefits for too long. Thank the unions. Look at Florida, where 1 of 5 jobs in that state is now in some government sector, and pays 3 times what a private sector job pays, with benefits that outstrip what any private business could supply. Now that is a police state, and maybe it got that way due to the large retirment population wanting to "feel safe". I think that our government has become so large, unfunded, and self fulfilling because they watch out for their own.They are a different breed of human. They award themselves with benefits, much like out congressmen with pay and bonus perks, and have allowed the criminal justice system to flurish and grow out of control over the past 30 years.
You're starting to lose me. The minutea of the meeting seems derailed from the energy and flow up to that point. Also, trying to keep track of 10 characters at one time is too difficult for my ageing brain. As mentioned before, the excessive footnotes and the alternate scripts and tiny font notes are distracting and take away from the enjoyment of the read.
ReplyDeleteI for one am enormously amused by the story and now read it habitually Thanks Lira!
ReplyDelete+1 to a large degree; definitely a change in flow and energy from the prior section...and not for the better.
ReplyDeleteI quite liked the change of pace, particularly how effectively it showed the new order of things.
ReplyDeleteWould be interesting to see how Boomers of the Republican stripe would rationalize things.
LIRA this book is insightfully brilliant! Keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteFact is stranger than fiction because fiction has to at least sound believable.
For 17 months, New York police officer Adrian Schoolcraft recorded himself and his fellow officers on the job, including their supervisors ordering them to do all sorts of things that police aren't supposed to do. For example, downgrading real crimes into lesser ones, so they wouldn't show up in the crime statistics and make their precinct look bad.. ACT TWO. IS THAT A TAPE RECORDER IN YOUR POCKET, OR ARE YOU JUST UNHAPPY TO SEE ME?
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/414/right-to-remain-silent
But #1, I find the "alternate script and tiny font notes" both creative and ingenious and enjoy reading them, like a detailed supplement they flesh out the main storyline.
ReplyDeleteMr. Lira, I'm a heavy reader but I've never read anything quite like this before. I look forward to your next posted pages.
nathan
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ReplyDeleteOn your footnote on page 114, "dodging the lottery" you have it backwards, the lower the number, the more likely that you would be drafted.
Also on page 127,it should be It "turns" not It "turn" into the pale gray road.
I have enjoyed your writings, quite a different look at the state of affairs and their causes from what is offerd in the mainstream media. I especially enjoyed "Has America Become a Police State", and quite agree with you. This latest chapter, that the boomers are to blame based on their fears and "feeling unsafe", is certainly food for thought. I hope that you give more copy to the real reasons for our government entropy, just look at the Post Office for example, so many overpaid employees, enjoying to many benefits for too long. Thank the unions. Look at Florida, where 1 of 5 jobs in that state is now in some government sector, and pays 3 times what a private sector job pays, with benefits that outstrip what any private business could supply. Now that is a police state, and maybe it got that way due to the large retirment population wanting to "feel safe". I think that our government has become so large, unfunded, and self fulfilling because they watch out for their own.They are a different breed of human. They award themselves with benefits, much like out congressmen with pay and bonus perks, and have allowed the criminal justice system to flurish and grow out of control over the past 30 years.