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10 Nov, 6 tweets, 2 min read
1) I dreamed this morning I was part of the cast for a new @DAVID_LYNCH movie, & he was shooting fairly improvisational scenes with me & several other performers, including @PattyArquette, around a large unpaved loop road with trees & buildings, around this time of year, Fall ...
2) There were ideas in the minds of the actors that Lynch had given them of where their stories were going and what to do. I performed a kind of "spazz-out" moment in a scene we shot near strange electronic devices and an uncertain sense whether we were outdoors or indoors. ...
3) Later, I was walking around the loop road, possibly but not definitely off camera, going to ask Ms. Arquette a question, but on the way I had a sudden flash of dream-memory (i.e. not from waking life) about how one of Lynch's films started as a Doctor Who episode. ...
4) Thinking about that episode made me realize (again, in dream reality, not waking life) that Fred Madison in "Lost Highway" experiences, not dissociation, but Doctor-Who-style REGENERATION. I get very excited at this dream-realization, & within earshot of young male actors ...
5) ... as I am walking around this unpaved loop road, I loudly describe "an idea" for a film, but what I am doing is describing in metaphoric terms what is going on in this David Lynch Doctor Who story that eventually became or paralleled (in strange dream duality) Lost Highway.
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1) - Confession time:

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, I in the name of non-discrimination came out on exactly the WRONG SIDE of the Diversity Training issue, due at least in part to my innate stubbornness & white male Christian heterosexual southern-born-and-raised privilege.
2) - I used my new fascination - internal social media at the Federal @DeptofDefense agency where I worked from 1979 to 2012 - to sound off frequently against quotas and set-asides, and against every move by our EEO office ...
3) - ... to take the fight against discrimination into Affirmative Action territory. We had a newsgroups system fashioned after USENET, and we had internal e-mail, and I became somewhat notorious for my activity in both - quite probably to the detriment of my promotability.
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1. Let's take another look at the "duopoly" argument that some Progressives use as a reason they do not want to support either mainstream party, Democratic or Republican, or their candidates. Those Progressive make valid, scary, germane points in the age of @realDonaldTrump.
2. It is no secret that I, while I see value in this argument and in fact think Progressives have the best ideas for American government improvement, some of them woefully overdue, that I have ever seen, sadly still think they were used to divide liberals and elect Trump.
3. But there is much validity in what these Progressives say about the corruption of government as a whole. I say this from my own direct experience of workplace politics as a career civilian @DeptofDefense employee, in one of its agencies, from 1979 to 2012.
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1. Since purposes and intentions are diverse and complicated, it occurs to me that the generally odious practice of Manufacturing Consent - and its cousin, manipulation of consensus, can be applied by powerful people and groups to constructive ends.
2. Mind you, such techniques being wielded more effectively by those who are rich and/or powerful stand as reasons why our society does well to govern itself so that the Consent Manufacturers & consensus manipulators do not have outsized influence.
3. But the influence they do have is immense, ingrained. Somewhat sadly, it has formed who we are as individuals as well as who we become as a society. It is not so much that we are not independent, as that we simply cannot & will not extricate ourselves from this influence.
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1) - I've trotted out this, my variation on a W.C. Fields/P.T. Barnum/"Canada Bill" Jones aphorism, before, with another pic (the @tassagency_en photo from the Oval Office of the @WhiteHouse the day after @realDonaldTrump fired @Comey). I've reset it to another photo. Here's why:
2) - The original aphorism read "... to let a sucker keep his money." It had to do with being conned, and with being an easy mark for a con artist. It's almost a Categorical Imperative for such a scammer, when faced with an easily manipulated/fooled mark.
3) - Now, transitioning the saying from "money" to "country" gives it political relevance today. There are credulous, manipulated people now, just as there were in America's early years, even our colonial times. And there are prosperous and powerful users of the gullible public.
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1/7 - An actual 2000 statement from the Family Research Council (@FRCdc) presents starkly their Christian supremacism: “While it is true that the United States of America was founded on the sacred principle of religious freedom for all, that liberty was never intended ..."
2/7 - "... to exalt other religions to the level that Christianity holds in our country’s heritage...Our founders expected that Christianity — and no other religion — would receive support from the government as long as that support did not violate peoples’ consciences ..."
3/7 - "... and their right to worship."

Here we see views that stand in direct challenge of the Establishment Clause of the Constitution, & of the fact that religion in America should not be established or reinforced by the government, as a hierarchy dominated by any one faith.
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1 - I'm not convinced that theocracy is a good idea even if the religion it uses as its basis is sound. At the very least, faiths that best work hand in hand with world governments have seemed to me not to specifically present themselves as sole owners of truth & right.
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3 - The problem is more detailed than a trite "power corrupts" citation would encapsulate. American Christianity has been shaped from our colonial days by influential preachers. Those preachers are infuential partially because of their message, but also because of their backers.
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