Follow Along As I Make A Movie
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Why will the gas run out? Think of where it comes from, Monique. Think about what’s going to happen there now that the evil global overlord is no longer around to oppress everyone into behaving themselves. Think about what’s going to happen to the evil world financial system now that the planet’s [...]
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Part 5 of the Rahe interview deals with recovering liberty from soft despotism. Rahe is quite optimistic on this point as he feels that the internal contradictions of the welfare state will doom it in the near future. He cites the example of Social Security as an example. Essentially when the state guarantees [...]
In the fourth part of the uncommon knowledge interview with Paul Rahe they start to discuss what has gone wrong with the dynamic American form of government that Tocqueville witnessed. Essentially Tocqueville was impressed with the way that the American system empowered citizens with control over their own lives. This was accomplished via the institutions [...]
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In part 3 of the Uncommon Knowledge interview with Paul Rahe Peter Robinson and Paul Rahe explore the 4 characteristics of American culture that tend to protect it from the slide into soft despotism. These are:
Local Government – Local government is accessible. If you want something done or change there is [...]
In part 2 of soft despotism with Paul Rahe he attempts to explain the appeal of soft despotism for the ruling class as well as the citizens.
For the ruling class he points out that we all have a natural bias in our minds that we know better than other people. The more educated one becomes, [...]
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In my effort to further understand where America is and where it is going I’ve been reading Paul A. Rahe’ “Soft Despotism – Democracy’s Drift”. I’m finding it a tough read so far but worth it. Below is Part 1 of an interview that Peter Robinson did with Paul Rahe for the “Uncommon [...]
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One of the aspects of American history I want to get across in my movie is how innovative American business has been and how this has benefited both America and the world. One of the examples I might use is the story of Herbert Dow. This is his story.
Herbert Dow was actually born [...]
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If you’re following this blog you know that I wrote a few documentary film makers asking them for advice. One person who did write me back was Tom Naughton who created the documentary “Fat Head” (essentially a rebuttal of Morgan Spurlock’s “Super Size Me“). He was very kind and encouraging and also gave [...]
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Today I wrote to a few people who have made low budget documentaries to see if they had any advice for me. These people were:
Evan Coyne Maloney – He runs the website “brain terminal” http://brain-terminal.com/ – he also created a doc on higher education. However there was no link that I could see [...]
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First of all I want to say that from now on I’m planning on blogging nearly everyday about my film making journey. I’ve been busy working on other projects but now I think I can devote my full attention to my film project. It’s going to need it.
In order to make my film [...]