I have a tendency to get over zealous at times. I’m really passionate about Beer, Wisconsin, and Music. I’ve been following this developing story since O’so made me aware of it several weeks ago.
History is important to me. I’m disgusted with the current state of “winner- take- all-American-politics.” Abbie Hoffman, Angela Davis, and Woody Guthrie are heroes of mine and I’m trying to emulate them by being out spoken on issues I believe in.
Everyone in America should know who Lee Atwater is. Watch the movie Boogey Man: The Lee Atwater Story. I’ll leave it at that.
Dante Alighieri wrote in the “common language” of the people. The Divine Comedy is great. His enemies are put in hell and he describes their sins in life and why they are placed there and what their punishment will be. It also rhymes. The Life is Beautiful guy, Roberto Benigni, has a large portion of it memorized.
The Pail and Shovel Party is a rich example of Wisconsin history. I won’t tell you all about it because I’ll ruin the fun you’ll have discovering it for yourself.
Leni Riefenstahl is also a hero of mine. Again, I won’t tell you all about it.
Sacha Baron Cohen has changed the game on how to interview people. Yes, The Daily Show was doing it first. This trend is to trick people to say things to find out how they actually feel on an issue.
The Onion is another rich example of Wisconsin history.
2012 is going to be an eventful year for Wisconsin.
So I’ve taken all these seemingly unrelated ideas and created this “perfect storm” of an idea based around the American Revolution, which has been greatly mythologized in my opinion, and apply it to the current day. Only it takes place in Wisconsin.
Let me bring you up to speed: People of Wisconsin are upset due to high taxes and foreign rule, everyone starts bitching at each other, War is good for an economy, A War breaks out under shady circumstances as it typically does, and the heroes of the War are celebrated for generations to come.
Not everyone thinks this is a good idea. Because War is not a good idea. I’m trying to turn this all into a big joke. I want to. But I need the right people around me and we need to be properly funded.
That being said if people aren’t in on it they will think I’m serious and won’t want to be a part of it.
I will always make it obvious I’m taking pictures and recording conversations. Facebook has made the world transparent. If something is not transparent you get a little paranoid and think something might be up.
So here is the outline for my project: Politician inspires hope, gets assassinated, turns into zombie, goes to Italy to learn how politics really works, gets elected governor, and turns nation into Fascist state.
I’ll not say anything else about this project to the public to prevent a “War of the Worlds” scenario from going down. The whole joke is I’m not doing anything new.
So right now my plan is to not do anymore picture taking or recording of conversations unless I have permission from the proper authority to do so.
That being said I’m trying to be as transparent as possible with wisconsinbeerun as I can. I post the interview in its entirety so if you care to listen you can hear the questions asked in context. I really want people’s respect and if I start my career off with a gimmick I’ll have to work my entire career proving I really deserve to be where I am.
I first had the idea for wisconsinbeerun in the spring of 2004. For 7+ years I’ve had to goal to create a definitive account of Beer in Wisconsin.
The events of this past spring really got every talking about Wisconsin, which is great. For the wrong reasons. Seriously. I just want to educate people what is happening by providing examples from history. Spoiler Alert: It’s the same tricks being used to confuse people.
I think everyone knows where I’ll be Thursday, July 7th and Saturday, July 9th if anyone wants to talk to me.
Jeff McCabe
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