High Heaven #2

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HOLLYWOOD SOAPBOX: High Heaven is billed as a ‘savage satire.’ What are you and the team trying to satirize?

TOM PEYER:

A partial list:

◾The idea that you can’t be happy unless other people devote themselves to your happiness. Some of us, like High Heaven star David Weathers, are slow to grow out of that. (I think I was, if indeed I have.) David is such a baby, and artist Greg Scott sells his moods so well.
◾Austerity, the philosophy that says it’s somehow wrong to spend public money in the public interest, that we don’t deserve anything better than reduced library hours, bumpy roads, poorly equipped schools. If we don’t deserve those things now, why would we after death?
◾The social pecking order that earns the majority’s loyalty by giving it minorities to look down on. I can’t see that ending after death, either.

And more! New things to mock every day.




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Comments

[lordultimus]

It occurs to me that if the point of your work is about the unfairness of inequality, maybe don't make your protagonist's primary characteristic be immature whining.