The path ahead.
A Democracy, if we can keep it . . .
As a team, America of My Dreams is spreading out on the ground in flyover country and putting together small groups in local coffee shops. We will be asking our fellow citizens about what they believe are the most important functions of government, how they think our current government is doing against their own standards and what they think are the rights and responsibilities of citizens. We call these folks citizen philosophers. We’ll be featuring portraits of the citizen philosophers whom we meet, and we’ll let everyone contribute two essential ideas to our collective website.
The Inspiration
After too much TV watching, I realized a few things. First, I don’t want to waste so many hours in front of the television, and second, what I was seeing didn’t really address the questions that I have about our country in light of the constant din of antagonism and partisanship. I don’t believe that folks need to be as polarized as we have become.
I realized that I do not have a sense of what my fellow countrymen are thinking about what they believe is the vital role of our government and what they feel are the appropriate rights and responsibilities of citizens. No one has been asking these very fundamental questions, and I think that if we could ponder these essential issues we might find a path forward on many divisive issues.
As time has gone by, we have, however, had to imagine the worst - so we worked on an action adventure film to face our fears. Something like Mission Impossible meets Gran Torino meets In the Line of Fire - but with female heros this time!
The Vitruvian Network, THe film
When a conservative grandmother finds out she is terminally ill, she is recruited into a secret network of assassins and tasked with eliminating the charismatic dictator of a fascist Amerika.
Can this frail grandma harness what’s left of her reserves to become a killer, outwit state security, and pull the trigger before it’s too late?
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More to come,
Anne Wedner