Richard France Interview.

[tonyw]

For those who've not accessed this, I heartily recommend it and thanks to Glenn for posting it. I did not realize that the Richard France of the Welles book was the Richard France of some George Romero films. George is a great fan of Welles and Richard's comments about academic can be easily verified by me. In a recent book review, I described the system as now resembling the Gothic paranoid world of a Mario Bava film!

[Glenn Anders]

Tony: The Boys on Wall Street want to reduce all of us to those ant-like creatures Wellesian characters used to observe from high places. Academia and all public services are now on their agenda. Good-bye, middle class and democratic institutions!

. . . Occupy. Occupy. Occupy.

Glenn

[tonyw]

I'm still listening to the France interview and impressed by his mention of "generosity of spirit" as well as knowledge. Also, turning a student in the right direction. Correct again, Glenn!. My faculty union has announced a strike date for November 3 as a result of a new Chancellor who has not only undermined tenure in an imposed contract (firing any faculty member for any reason with 30 days notice) as well as limiting academic freedom by forcing everybody to teach distance learning whether they like it nor not. Here the battle lines are drawn. If she wins, I guess the next time I teach Orson Welles will lead to my dismissal due to low student numbers!

[Glenn Anders]

I'm sorry to hear, Tony, that you are one of the immediate targets. More power to you and your union! If I can help in any way, let me know. I'm sure, if Welles were still alive, he would be fulminating against the current onslaught against the America created since the New Deal. Unions and the public schools, need to be destroyed, according to the New World Order people, because they are the only organized bulwarks against their drive to control everything.

What puzzles me is how tens of millions of Americans can be so misled as to go along with what, for all intents and future understandings, will be a fascist take over. Lots of luck to us under the new Robber Barons. But even in the late 19th Century, Academia was valued! I hope that the corporatists have underestimated the power of learned minds. Let's see how they react when dozens of Nobel Prize winners take off for Europe, Brazil, or China.

I'm sure that distinguished scholars like Richard France will stand behind you.

Keep Wellsians informed, Tony.

Glenn

[tonyw]

Thank you, Glenn, for these affirmative words. I did not realize that Richard France was the same person who also appeared in those Romero films. He was shafted by academia and Georgre mentioned that Cletus Anderson also informed him about the "Tales from the Darkside" of academia. If our Dowager Emoress/Madame Mao Chancellor has her way over undermining tenure and abolishing academic freedom on this campus then Welles will be cast into the outer darkness because (a) he blew it after CITIZEN KANE; (b) made films in black and white; and (c) didn't make money by attracting audiences!