On the Horizon
My name is Eric Schneller, and I am a devout Roman Catholic, a conservative, and an observationalist when I’m not busy being a theorist – among quite a few other things. But I’ll let my readers take what they may about what else could be on the list from reading my coming blog posts. I’m not a show dog, so I won’t post a pedigree. After all, good novelists out there develop their characters through the use of allusions and subtle context and not by including a one-page insert entitled “Here’s Everything You Want to Know About the Main Character Without Experiencing the Rewarding Feeling of Applying Yourself.”
So why am I starting a blog? Well, I was never really planning to, but recently my brain started hurting because of all of the internal monologue that has built up over the past couple of decades regarding my studies and observations of what liberals have gotten away with, are getting away with, and are planning to get away with. Add to that my exultation (which is shared by a whole lot of other real Americans) at having the first president since Ronald Reagan to have a backbone built like the Washington Monument, and it has left me with something – perhaps a sort of useful and focused affliction – that I like to call the LEM. Now, I’d like to think that at least some of you recognize that as the acronym for Lunar Excursion Module; but in my case it stands for Literary Extrusion Method. Okay, try to imagine one of those Play-Doh Fun Factory extruders. Then you take some Play-Doh, which has wonderful potential but no specific direction just yet, and you build up a lot of pressure, then force it through a conservative American (the only real sort of American) shape plate. Next thing you know, you have well formed conservative discourse that has no place to go but forwards.
So what is to come? I plan to provide general conservative commentary relative to current and past events as well as investigative reporting on matters that expose the sorts of unfairness, hypocrisy, and incompetence that act as impediments to liberty and affronts to true American values.
And to give you a bit of a primer as to my fighting style of choice, I plan to make generous use of analogies. During his confirmation hearings, Supreme Court Justice Neal Gorsuch mentioned his fondness for the use of analogies. He made an excellent point. Analogies help to make a wide variety of discourse more translatable to more audiences. The other tool I plan to employ to achieve this same goal is the use of movie lines, as well as quotes from literature and television shows. In fact, a quote that will probably serve as a recurring theme in my writings is from one of the best movie dramas ever made, Absence of Malice. When Assistant U.S. Attorney General James J. Wells, played by actor Wilford Brimley, gives his assessment of Mr. Rosen as having “some peculiar ideas on how to do his job,” it summarized so perfectly the age old problem of having to deal with people who think they can make their own rules and break everyone else’s and get away with it. Well, unfortunately, there are more people out there today who have some peculiar ideas on how to do their jobs than you could shake Harvey Weinstein’s looming jowls at.
Now I have to get writing. I have a lot of notes and outlines jotted down, but producing the actual work might be a little slow at first. For the moment, I don’t have much time each day. However, as my work gets posted, I would really appreciate your feedback. Hope to hear from you.