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Aug 28, 2017 · 1 min read

Charles Dickens’ ‘Oliver Twist’ is a classical example of the manipulation of an audience. When I first read it and got a couple of chapters in, I noticed a perturbing cycle. Where each significant section, nearly each chapter, ends with Oliver being in great peril. Then, within the first page or two of the next chapter, he’s escaped said peril and the rest of the chapter is a setup of another perilous situation.

The systematic approach to writing bothered me, because it felt so obvious. Later, I researched the history of that book and found that it was originally published as a serial in periodicals. Thus, there was a significant time delay between someone reading one chapter and then the next. Thus, the suspense was useful and kept them coming back. In book form, I don’t think that it reads very well.

As you say though, the local news “feel good” stories are more often than not patently disingenuous. Especially when they follow “blood leads” and the “FIRST WARN WEATHER TEAM” weather coverage.

My big question regarding Nazis is. What line does one have to cross to become aligned with a movement like that?

That is, there are very few people who hold Nazi ideals close to their heart, but I believe that there are a lot of people who would go along with it, if they could convince themselves that it didn’t endanger them as an individual and it hurt only the groups of people who they see as societal cancers.

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