James Spader is a valuable treasure to the Western tradition precisely because he displays the entire range of possibilities of thought and character that we all carry, but can hardly stand face to face with. If you can watch Boston Legal and not speculate on your own horrors, you need to watch it again, with no one around, maybe with a tiny touch of LSD.
Spader lays out the incredible possibilities of the human psyche by bringing a vast range of them to life, balanced in some strange way by exploring alternatives of thought.
He gives you the only hint you need when he's quoted as having resisted ideology all his life. He's talking about Christianity, religion, mores and morals, and he's not afraid to let you know it. That's courage, the quality I see the most in Spader's portrayals of humans in touch with their entire capabilities of thought.
Engaged in our daily battle with the intellectual flying rats that infest the propaganda battleground, it's easy to forget the swamp from which we wish to clear the alligators.
Alan Shore, the brilliant, abrasive, fearless and very tricky lawyer from the Boston Legal television series, constantly gives us pause as he surprises us with new ways of lookinig at apparently lost causes.
We would do well to keep him in mind as we attempt to put ourselves in the places of progressives low and high, from Nevada to the White House, and we should always remember we haven't thought of everything.
To the extent that this forum becomes constricted in its thought by those who would limit questions, especially short ones that seem to have no answers, then this forum will become less useful to those who come here for ideas, for every time a Kossack sees a idea squelched, they learn a new boundary on their thought, erected by their own supposed allies in the progressive tent.
Please, please: consider that when you tell someone they shouldn't post an idea or a concept because it can't work, stop and think. Maybe their odd thought will lead someone to a thought that clears the air of confusion, or evades a difficulty seemingly impossible.