After our little sojourn which I'm very grateful for, returning to the original post by Parallel, I have some ideas that could be developed. Just brainstorming at present and writing various thoughts down.
1. Story's from SOTT focus pieces, such as women who love psychopaths. http://www.sott.net/articles/show/228663-The-Unexamined-Victim-Women-Who-Love-Psychopaths narration of the article with relevent imagry
2. Promos for Sott editor CTD's, images with questions overylayed that will be answered in the article.
3. A top three most viewed or talked about SOTT articles over a particular time period
A bit more longterm>>>
4. Thinking about the research here on the root causes I think there would be mileage in a feature-length documentary on psychopathy. Cheesy working title: "Psychopaths, inc". A combination of real-life accounts from victims of white-collar psychopaths with layman’s explanations interspersed with key scientific psychology research, protection advice and a way forward.
5. Another ambitious idea is a Proper charachter Drama of the writing of the book Political Ponerology
In itself it would make a great movie, I can picture dark communist Poland lecture theatre with tyrannical secret Police terrorising Lobaczewski and his colleagues. Them meeting in private discussing their findings, talking about how they can keep it secret and the importance of their work, then the Police raids etc. It could start with him as an older man in NY as a welder with flash backs to the past.
The author was recognised as the bearer of this �dangerous� science only in Austria, by a �friendly� physician who turned out to be a �red� agent. The communist groups in New York were then set up to organize a �counter action.� It was terrible to learn how the system of conscious and unconscious pawns worked. Worst were the people who credulously trusted their conscious �friends� and performed the insinuated activities with patriotic zeal. The author was refused assistance and had to save his life by working as a welder. My health collapsed, and two years were lost. It appeared that I was not the first who came to America bringing similar knowledge and, once there, treated in a similar way.
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/political_ponerology_lobaczewski.htm
I love the Book introduction:
May the reader please imagine a very large hall in an old Gothic university building. Many of us gathered there early in our studies in order to listen to the lectures of outstanding philosophers and scientists. We were herded back there – under threat - the year before graduation in order to listen to the indoctrination lectures which recently had been introduced.
which I think refers to this:
6. A more documentary based sole focus on Ponerology. - Ponerology, inc. With footage superimposed of the tyrants from the front cover, interspersed with narration of Lobaczewski's book over footage of the era at the time. rather like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVP3KU-qOzc Goebbels diary
Parts such as how ponerology came to be written:
The original manuscript of this book went into the furnace minutes before a secret police raid in Communist Poland. The second copy, painfully reassembled by scientists working under impossible conditions of violence and repression, was sent via courier to the Vatican. Its receipt was never acknowledged - the manuscript and all valuable data lost. In 1984, the third and final copy was written from memory by the last survivor of the original researchers: Andrew Lobaczewski. Zbigniew Brzezinski blocked its publication.
http://ponerology.com/
Could be told in an animation style such as this one on ID cards: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Ym7eU_OYU&feature=player_embedded
Looking at documentaries covering GMO's, I came across this project: http://www.gmofilm.com/ It looks like quite an ambitious project that the director is creating and recieving funds by using http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gmofilmproject/gmo-film-project-untitled
Nothing stopping us doing something similar. Using a fundraising site like kickstarter would actually be a very good way of promoting ponerology, regardless of whether the fundraising was successful.
I'd quite like to have a go at script writing. I have a couple of weeks free in August that I could use researching, writing, field work, Possibly even visiting places further afield to take footage, visit folk and conduct interviews.
