Elly > Recent Status Updates

2. I'm on the part about streaming shows affecting income, and I wonder if writers did get a better deal after the SAG strike...I kind of want to read the contract when I'm finished with this book.

On the chapter "The Myth of Value" and I'm reminded of two things.

1. Someone once said "Movies are made by rich people for poor people, and theater is made by poor people for rich people." I can't recall where I heard that from, but I've thought about it often when it comes to making art and for what medium... I wonder where making TV fits in? I know the phrase is reductive, there are people at all levels, but?

"The combination of reverence and ignorance is at the heart of all fundamentalism...Common characteristics of religious fundamentalism include the idealization of authority figures, selective and self-serving interpretations of sacred texts, an unfounded sense of persecution, and a belief in natural hierarchies. Constitutional fundamentalists exhibit these same tendencies." -from The Cult of the Constitution