aaron sorkin worships everything i find loathsome. the west wing was an insufferable romanticization of political power: not much there but a yearning for the kennedy of myth: same face without the basic purpose: to fuck everything that moves. now he yearns after cronkitism: the time we supposedly had one person to tell us what the truth was, or at least tell us what horseshit we ought to believe. remember when we were so united? well, no, i don't, now that you mention it. but aaron: do remember what it was that united us, even if only in your imagination: subordination to vicious authority and implicit belief in whatever jive was shoved in our direction by a tiny hyper-concentrated national media. remember when americans trusted their institutions? no. but i do remember that those institutions were completely untrustworthy.
what we need is an inverse or obverse sorkin. make a series about an i.f. stone figure, or one based on a heroic yet flawed bradley manning, etc.
