Strike!

Many of my friends are writers and many of my friends are not. The majority of my friends and I depend on film production to pay bills. In the midst of this strike I have heard many conflicting arguments as to whether or not folks are in support, which has urged me to voice my opinion.

Times are a changin', they always have and always will, and sometimes it takes something or someone to ripple the water a bit in order to get folks to catch up to modern times. Take Rosa Parks for instance. If she hadn't stood up against the wishes of that bus driver, how much longer would it have taken for things to change in that aspect?

I believe our natural inclination is to stick with the old, stick with what we know, but that isn't always beneficial to ourselves or mankind. With new technology comes change and with change comes freshness, new ideas, new ways of living life. With the WGA strike, what we have is a group of people providing a service in which technology has surpassed them in their compensation. So it is time for a change, and if these people don't do something drastic, such as putting our jobs on the line, technology will surpass them and they will be stuck sitting in the back of the bus, so to speak.

Our educational system is much the same way. Our schools were re-designed during the Agricultural Era in preparation for the Industrial Era and even though we've moved on to the Technological Era, our children are still being taught in the regimented ways meant to train those looking toward working in factories.

We will now be a part of history, reminiscing back on the day writers weren't paid for internet shows in which they won Emmy's, shows downloaded by those of us who have no time to make it home to watch our favorite shows due to long production hours.