Calling Aeschylus, or Marlowe, or Miller at least

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Here’s an interesting scenario:

As a child, a stranger libeled your beloved parent  as committing a vile act of violence, based only on an unfounded assertion. Because your parent was a public figure, your family could not get redress.

As an adult, you join in the libeling of dozens of strangers — some public figures, most everyday people — as committing vile acts of violence. The accusations — at least those against the everyday folk — are, again, based on assertions backed by … nothing.

I can’t say much more. But who wants to take this up as theater?

I’d buy tickets.

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