There was a very good documentary series shown in the U.K. recently called 'The Power of Nightmares', which explored some of these issues, particularly the Neoconservatives. The BBC did show it, though apparently they were a little worried about doing so at first. Although it's going to be shown at the Cannes film festival as a film, I doubt it will get released widely in the U.S.
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There isn't an official transcript, but there are the unofficial ones:
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"James D. Macdonald ::: (view all by) ::: June 16, 2005, 12:35 AM:
Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday he doesn't believe revelations about the treatment of prisoners at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay have become an image problem for the United States and that the facility should not be shut down.
-- CNN
Good to know this isn't a image problem."
I'm not sure if Cheney genuinely believes this, or just wants others to. Either way, he's very wrong.
Actually Lucy, you give me hope.
I was wondering why the genre crashed, so I thought about why I stopped reading so much of it (slaps wrist for hypocrisy). Basically, I wanted to be scared, but I didn't want to wade through blood and guts. Some gore, okay, but I found the levels too much. What scares me, what thrills me in horror, is something else. I do still read horror, but not as much as I would if that were not the case.
I'm interested in people's thoughts on why the genre crashed.
I write supernatural horror, both young adult and adult. I try to scare people largely by making their imagination run rampant (these people only exist in my head by the way, I need to submit something before I can be published). I suggest and imply far more than reveal. That's what scares me, so that's what I write.
I don't just write horror, but it is the majority of my writing, and I don't seem to be able to shake off the habit.
I'm doomed :-).
I'm curious as to what might resuscitate Horror as a genre.
Are successful movies enough of a boost, or will it take a new highly popular book?
Is there hope of a recovery? These things seem cyclical to me. Or should horror writers just do a lemming?
(Gazes at cliff in despair)
"And I would suggest that everyone involved in the discussion go out and rent the movie Johnny Got His Gun (or read the book by Dalton Trumbo)."
I'll try and get the book. It reminds me of a folk song, 'Johnny I hardly knew you'. The lyrics are in the link below. That song gave me nightmares for a long time.
http://www.makem.com/discography/recordings/lyricpage/johnnyihardlyknewye.html
"At one time (and in certain places) the standard for proving death was physical corruption."
I wasn't aware of that. So what would happen when a body didn't corrupt? I know that this was sometimes viewed as miraculous.
I do think that the boundaries between death and life have been blurred by medical advancement. The priest who gave testimony in the Schiavo case was afraid that people would begin to support euthanasia, precisely because of the possibility that they would have their lives prolonged in a way that they did not wish, or their suffering might be prolonged.
Melissa, I'm disabled and I was horrified by that over-simplification. I also believe I wouldn't want to have my life prolonged if I were unfortunate enough to be in a similar condition as Terry Schiavo was in.
I've just been reading the testimony given by Father Gerard Murphy, and he spoke about unhealthy grief, in relation to some of the extreme things the Schindler family said.
(smacks forehead)
The above link is also on The Daily Kos.
I really should have read the links before posting. Sorry.
I found this blog really interesting, and it lets you read some of the court judgements:
http://abstractappeal.com/schiavo/infopage.html
He's been following this case before it came to international, or even national, attention.
Back to lurking:-)
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