Pelecanos, he's so forward-thinking most authorities cite him as the first person ever to blog his own birth - in advance. what does that make us? And where are we supposed to go from here? How are we to repair a stumbling economy that doesn't really make anything but ever-more imaginary money? Should we even try?Ĭory Doctorow is a writer both qualified and eager to answer. If he is correct, and we have stopped making things. It's been said there are only three sorts of people: makers, takers, and fakers. Pelecanos, a brilliant novelist as well as screenwriter, deserves to be credited for nailing something fundamental in so few words. It's only because computers and the Internet drastically changed the world in my lifetime that I can now easily summon up information as obscure as "the name of the man who wrote the best lines uttered on television in 2003." And Mr. (Sigh.) Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket." - union leader Frank Sobotka in The Wire screenplay by George Pelecanos "Know what the trouble is, Brucie? We used to make shit in this country.
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