The Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2013 – The Story Department https://www.thestorydepartment.com Story. Screenplay. Sale. Tue, 26 Aug 2014 06:33:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.thestorydepartment.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-fav-32x32.png The Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2013 – The Story Department https://www.thestorydepartment.com 32 32 2808072 [Video]: David Simon’s Dangerous Ideas https://www.thestorydepartment.com/video-david-simons-dangerous-ideas/ https://www.thestorydepartment.com/video-david-simons-dangerous-ideas/#respond Wed, 27 Aug 2014 02:00:06 +0000 https://thestorydepartment.com/?p=32141 Read more]]> A local gem you may have missed: at The 2013 Festival of Dangerous Ideas, David Simon speaking at the Sydney Opera House David Simon (showrunner of The Wire and creator of the miniseries The Corner, author of Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets). As much a keen-eyed social scientist as he is a gifted storyteller, Simon takes the podium to talk about the hidden realities of a capitalistic civilization; how our current state of polarised political deadlock is a consequence of historical forces; and how America is going through a nation-wide social upheaval without precedence.

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