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The Deep Swamp State (Below the FBI Building in DC) – Diorama by John Fraim  American Political Narratives Number of Narratives John Fraim “Sometimes we move towards the true answer by defining life into a number of things rather than defining life into things.” (Ancient Proverb)   We look so intently for things in our Western […]

Jim’s TeaHouse – Where No Narratives Clash A thesis can be put forward that political narratives have a relationship to the degree of division or unity in the nation. Perhaps the best indicator of America’s division/unity temperature is represented by the historic statistics from Presidential elections showing popular and electoral votes. The charts go back […]

“We don’t quite know what reality is, anymore. And, more worryingly, we don’t seem much to care.” Daniel Boorstin In the early 60s, the American scholar Daniel Boorstin wrote a book about the effects of media publicity and advertising on political and social practices in the United States in of the 1950s. The title of […]

John Fraim Certainly not all see benefits in the creation of political narratives. In the 7/20/16 Kennedy School Review, Stephen Hawkins and Tommy Flint provide an interesting article “Two Stories, One America: How Political Narratives Shape Our Understanding of Reality.” Drawing upon the support of a burgeoning field of academic research, they describe how our […]

Application of Screenwriting Technique to Political Narrative 1st draft of a new book. Comments appreciated. Latest Draft – Narrative

The FBI Building Presiding Over the Deep State Swamp – Diorama by J. Fraim (May 2018) (From Chapter 8 of a New Work) The word narrative is one of the most popular words of our time, meaning so many things to so many people. In its relationship to a story, it creates a type invisible […]