All the kids up on stage in way too many high school, college or Sunday school musicals are the same kids that run (ruin ?) the rest of school life.
You know the ones .
All they of the conventionally smart mind, faces neatly symmetrical & teeth gleaming white, from a family with money, physical fit and socially attractive and exhibiting a very successful love life.
My musical will be different - it is a sort of a "Revenge of the Nerds" but on a much, much higher moral plane and based upon a true story from WWII.
(I know - I know - won't the social studies department just love that !)
It tells how a small bunch of misfits/unfits defied their all-powerful wartime government, powerful elite opinion (and their own bodies !) to bring cheap abundant life-saving penicillin to all of us - brought equally to those of us with the gleaming white teeth and to those of us doomed to be the eternal social misfits .
So just this time , let the misfits run the show.
Yes, particularly those with two left feet and those who can't even carry a bucket let alone a tune in a bucket.
Call it research or call it life-experience --- they'll be just fine up there , spazzing all over the stage, just doin' the Dance we call Life.
And compel Ms Perfect to flounce back into an audience seat to sit back and see how a tiny band of misfits from 75 years ago delivered the penicillin that allowed her dad's dad and her own mother, FG'S , make it out of childhood alive.
Because it is only thanks to those long dead misfits from us long ago, that she is even here to day , with her top SATs and her smashing BBF in tow.
Time to offer up some respect !
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Why My Urgency ?
- Michael Marshall
- Nova Scotia
- Histories of WWII all start with the presumption that it was a war raged between humans and human ideologies, with Nature’s climate and geography as side issues easily surmounted.My blog, on the contrary will only accept that it was conflict between humans and their ideology that STARTED the war but that it was the barriers thrown up by Mother Nature (geography & climate) that turned it into a war that lasted between 6 to 15 years and expanded to thoroughly involve all the world’s oceans and continents. High Modernity may have started the war convinced that Nature had been conquered and was about to be soon replaced by human Synthetic Autarky and that only human Tiger tanks and human Typhoon planes were to be feared. But by the end, more and more people had lost their naive faith in Scientism and were beginning to accept that humanity was thoroughly entangled with both the Nature of plants, animals & microbes as well as the Nature of so called “lesser” humanity. By 1965, the world was definitely entering the Age of Entanglement. Billions still believed - at least in part -with the promises of High Modernity but intellectually & emotionally, it was no longer dominant...
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