22-01-2011, 03:38 AM
I could not disagree more with a forced, false choice between analyses.
Jim, we have the resources to handle both simultaneously.
I've advocated a bottom-up approach for years, and I've taken a great deal of grief for what others have termed by wasted attention on the Mechanics level of the plot.
We must reverse-engineer what happened in DP if we are to have any hope of knowing why it happened and who made it happen. Such a process by definition begins with an appreciation of the most accessible components of the plot.
SIMULTANEOUSLY we can and we must keep pressure and light on the entire hierarchical structure of the plot to the degrees that we can identify and isolate its components.
It is one thing for the Bugliosis of the world to attack from another camp. It is another phenomenon entirely when the likes of this despicable Nelson character attempt to strike us from behind.
This is war, good people. And while like Mr. Douglass I cast out violence as a means to combat violence, I nonetheless admonish all of good intentions to base their actions vis a vis this case on the realization that we are fighting for our lives.
Jim, we have the resources to handle both simultaneously.
I've advocated a bottom-up approach for years, and I've taken a great deal of grief for what others have termed by wasted attention on the Mechanics level of the plot.
We must reverse-engineer what happened in DP if we are to have any hope of knowing why it happened and who made it happen. Such a process by definition begins with an appreciation of the most accessible components of the plot.
SIMULTANEOUSLY we can and we must keep pressure and light on the entire hierarchical structure of the plot to the degrees that we can identify and isolate its components.
It is one thing for the Bugliosis of the world to attack from another camp. It is another phenomenon entirely when the likes of this despicable Nelson character attempt to strike us from behind.
This is war, good people. And while like Mr. Douglass I cast out violence as a means to combat violence, I nonetheless admonish all of good intentions to base their actions vis a vis this case on the realization that we are fighting for our lives.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene