I’ve been steadily impressed by the plain old sanity that shows up in the Hollywood types writing at the Ankler. Maybe they’re not the norm, but many of them are well-known names.

Here’s another example, from their coverage of the upcoming writers strike:

There were some writers, however, who expressed something close to a Zen-like calm about the coming week. “My theory is that the pandemic was essentially a forced dress rehearsal for a strike. Everyone had to shut down production overnight without any way to prepare. I think we learned a lot about what this looks like versus how it looked in 2007. The pandemic was a forced strike for everybody and it worked out. I think the general feeling is, ‘We survived the pandemic. We can survive anything.’”

Mental immunity is the sanest response to an attack by lunatic demons, whether it’s an old-fashioned war between countries or a new-fashioned war between all demonic rulers and all humans.

We’re tougher now, and we can handle this shit.

Reminds me of Hollywood’s WW2 attitude. Entertainment is a duty. One of those old radio gossip columns mentioned casually that singer Jane Froman almost lost both legs in a plane crash while entertaining troops, then spent six months learning how to walk again, then went right out and entertained the troops again in crutches and braces.