[ghausa] Re: Escalation and Fiction

  • From: "Bruce Cook, AuthorMe.com" <cookcomm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "ghausa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ghausa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 09:19:03 -0700 (PDT)

Dear Laj,
Thanks for your encouragement.

Bruce


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 From: Laj Utreja <lutreja7@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "ghausa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ghausa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 10:45 AM
Subject: [ghausa] Re: Escalation and Fiction
 

Dear Bruce:
A very good message for harmony seekers.
Laj

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Bruce Cook <cookcomm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Dear friends,
>
> In light of recent events, I am sharing the September edition of the
> monthly newsletter I write for emerging writers each month. I pray it will
> help us refresh our perspective on global harmony. (Sent to GHA USA
> Members)
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Bruce
>
> *Escalation in Fiction (and Life)*
> By Bruce L. Cook
>
> In fiction, as in life, stressful situations lead to escalation.
>
> The fiction author sets a conflict (a stressful situation), and the
> characters react, often resorting to escalation. This makes the story so
> exciting.
>
> Think of Dr. Seuss. He conjured up the delightful *Butter Battle Book*, in
> which the Yooks and the Zooks battle each other over breakfast food. The
> Yooks, who wear blue and eat their bread with the butter side up, are on
> one side. The Zooks eat their bread with the butter side down.
>
> The battle between these two groups escalates, starting with a mere
> slingshot. The counter-weapon is a triple slingshot, and then comes the
> slingshot that catches rocks from the triple weapon and sends them back.
> Next the Yooks use a weapon powered by  Poo-A-Doo powder and ants' eggs and
> bees' legs and dried-fried clam chowder. The Zooks, in return, fight back
> with an eight-nozzle elephant machine that shoots high-explosive sour
> cherry stone pits.
>
> Not to be outdone, the Yooks devise a device with spindly mechanical legs
> and four faucets on the back to "sprinkle blue goo all over the Zooks!"
> Alas, the Zooks create the same machine to fight back. Finally, both sides
> devise a compact weapon named for the first nuclear weapons invented, the
> Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo. As with nuclear bombs there is no defense. In the
> end, the generals for each side wait for each other and the questions is –
> which will be first to use the terrible weapon and trigger mutual
> destruction for all.
>
> Now, for a fiction author, it’s obvious that escalation is interesting. We
> might even try to avoid a comparison with real day-to-day existence. But
> really –who would kill thousands of people just because they don’t butter
> their bread on the same side?
>
> Try a new scenario. One side kills people with missiles and guns. The other
> sits back in a palace and sends airplanes with deadly chemicals. Now which
> side is best? And, as an author, would you stop by merely telling what
> happened?
> The real question is – would it be possible for the two sides to tolerate
> their differences? Is it really necessary to kill so many people just to
> get your way? Even children should know better than that.
>
> I would challenge authors not to stop with just telling the horrible story.
>
> Instead focus on harmony among peoples, mutual respect, and plentiful
> application of the golden rule, however it’s expressed in the cultures
> involved. (And, believe me, it is always there.) Show how individuals are
> taken advantage of by those who hold power over valuable resources like
> oil, water, and the engines of economic production.
>
> In your writings, try to help world leaders find ways to make peace real,
> not just a figment of fiction.
>
> The ABC of Harmony, Global Harmony Association,
> 2012<
> http://www.lulu.com/shop/dr-leo-semashko/the-abc-of-harmony-for-world-peace-harmonious-civilization-and-tetranet-thinking-civilization-and-tetranet-thinking/ebook/product-21151715.html
> >
> –
> Leo Semashko
> Scarboro Missions Golden Rule across the World’s
> Religions<http://www.scarboromissions.ca/Golden_rule/> –
> Paul McKenna
> The Coming Interspiritual Age,
> 2012<
> http://www.amazon.com/The-Coming-Interspiritual-Age-ebook/dp/B00AY6OA6K/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid61237385&sr=1-1>
> –
> Kurt Johnson
> An Introduction to the Just Third
> Way<http://www.cesj.org/thirdway/thirdway-intro.htm> –
> Normal Kurland
> The Butter Battle
> Book<
> http://www.amazon.com/The-Butter-Battle-Book-Notable/dp/0394865804/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid77778287&sr=8-2&keywords=butter+battle+seuss>
> –
> Dr. Seuss
>
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> …
>
> Yours in harmony,
>
> Bruce
> Bruce L. Cook, Ph.D.
> President, GHA-USA
> Vice-President, GHA
> Director of CSSS Publishing and Editorial team
> President, World Writers Resources, Inc.
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