Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

[Mike Frentz <mfrentz AT bbn.com>]

I'll have to sit this one out, there's enough left wing fiction in the 
newspapers that I've never felt compelled to also watch it on TV.


Mike

At 08:57 AM 8/15/2003 -0400, you wrote:


> Jim, et al -
>     Might be fun to kick around the question: What would WP think about West
> Wing? I'll volunteer to go first.
>     I don't think WP would have liked Bartlett, Toby, Josh, et al any better
> than he liked Hawkeye and Trapper John ("Thanatos," page 337 - Farrar Straus
> edition). Talk about your sin of pride. The puffed up little roosters in this
> program seem to think that everything in the universe - including the 
> alignment
> of the stars - is determined by what they do. And they want to micromanage
> everything. (Challenge: Name three aspects of daily life the characters on 
> Left
> Wing haven't at one time or other talked about passing legislation to 
> control.
> OK, name one.) The program promotes a form of secular humanism - the
> particularly vacuous Hollywood branch - all directed out of Washington. 
> Walker was a
> political liberal for a good deal of his life, but not this branch.
>      Thanks to a life devoted to avoiding legitimate work, I've put in
> considerable time working in and around politics. It don't work the way 
> it's shown
> on the program. I'm sure other folks like me, who've actually worked in
> politics, laugh at the show the same way cops laugh at cop shows.
>      I guess the show can be justified as entertainment, if viewers realize
> that's what it is. LW gives us some snappy and funny lines, and Donna's
> sweaters have something to be said for them. But beyond that, it's a dead 
> bang waste
> of an hour for me.
> -- Larry
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