Caitlin on the crucial relationship between fact and narrative -Archived Message
Posted by Rhisiart Gwilym on February 4, 2019, 9:28 am
Caitlin's idea of making the true stories 'sparkle' is dead right. This is why I do the clumsy word-play that I like: to throw into the air phrases and words that have a chance - as she points out - of becoming popular handles; things like 'Johnny Bat Guano' for the Swampies current 'Perkino Warbecko' in Venezuela; or 'the Permanent Bullshit Blizzard' for the gics' propaganda system; or 'gics' itself: gangsters-in-charge; or 'hasbarollocks' for the ziofilth's (h/t K264!) lying propaganda barrage; and on and on. More gifted story-makars than me - such as Caitlin - need to go at this en masse, to seize control of the dominant narratives of our time from the massed bought-(wo)men of the Brown Noses brigade, just as Cait says: make the fact-based stories 'sparkle', because people have a natural, innate preference for truth-based stories then for the deceitful confections of the fink-tanks, and their bought creatures such as Eliot Flabbins*.
This is surely a central concern of this frail cockleshell vessel TLN, isn't it?
* And yes, coarse ridicule is an essential tool too; easily and freely available to even the most obscure and powerless amongst us. And what de-powers a gic-paid spouter more quickly than school-kid-level ridicule? Beneath our thin layer of adult sophistication, we're remain eternal school-kids at heart. That's why we all luuuurve a good story; but one with plenty of the tough sinews of hard, well-checked facts holding it together...