Well, Charlie Chaplin certainly made fun of fascism in The Great Dictator, and Dr. Strangelove was a farce about the Cold War and the atom bomb. So a future-fascism comedy is certainly possible!
I’m just not sure the current “market” would gravitate to a satire on fascism, since that philosophy isn’t particularly “in the news” these days (but the thriller could make it so).
Besides, comedy is harder to write than thriller. So if y’all are okay with it, I say let’s stick with the latter.
Key,
You’re so serious sometimes. 
I was teasing. Thriller is good.
Rufus
Okay, Sam, I finally looked up “Rufus T. Firefly” and read the Wikipedia page on Duck Soup — it’s all coming back to me now, and I should have done that a lot sooner. So do ya wanna throw some fruit at me? Fine! This means war! and I’m gonna steal your peanuts, honk-honk! 
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I prefer The Great Dictator myself.
I’d like to see a story that explores fear through different characters in their everyday lives. Sort of a Requiem for a Dream with fear instead of addiction. One character could be a germaphobe, one could be a TV psychologist fearing that his ratings are slipping and he could lose everything he’s worked towards all of his adult life, one could be a mugging victim who’s now afraid to walk down the street and buys a gun for protection, then you have the mugger, who’s afraid of getting caught, etc.
I don’t even know what to say about this.
@Chadwick you write in circles and much of what you write is just as confusing as it was on the last Google+ community for Dramatica. I was hoping that somehow you would have taken the suggestions given to you a year ago and found a way to better communicate within a community, but the same circular reasoning is in evidence. It’s impossible to follow.
Please focus what it is you want to say on one specific topic and communicate it directly. Please don’t pretend to understand Dramatica when it is clear that you still struggle with basic concepts. Anyone new to the theory will come here and have plenty of justification to discount the whole lot of us.
If you can’t figure out a way to communicate and participate within the community without running everyone in circles I will have to ban you as I did last time. Thank you.
@SPotter and @keypayton - you guys are funny.
@JSensebe - that sounds interesting to me as an exploration.
@jhull - I corrected it the best I could. Sorry about that. I will do my best.
One of the reasons I asked about fear was because I saw Frozen and wondered what element Fear was in Elsa’s character. Then I wondered if fear can show up as any element. This discussion got started and I went with it as an exploration. Way out of my depth to have such a discussion. None of what I write intends to pretend I understand Dramatica. One of the things I have struggled with is finding any place to get a good class to participate in (like a graduate class that goes for two weeks). I need direct interaction with the material and instruction. Any suggestions?
I’ll try to stop by when I can. If no interest to continue the discussion about Fear as a solution element or how it shows up or trying to encode the storyform we started with, I am not going to be bothered. I hope you all aren’t. It is Thanksgiving week and I am thankful for all of you.
Cheers
Chadwick, I certainly don’t question your good intentions here. It’s just that, honestly, y’know, you tend to “gush out” your streams of consciousness, then fail to go back and “self-edit” them toward some clear point or question.
Lucky for you, doing that self-edit will help you clarify your own Dramatica explorations – and will help the rest of us see how to help you better!
Additional motivation: Busy people (which includes most of us visiting this forum) typically don’t like wasting time. So keep your posts from feeling like rambling wastes of time (good advice for myself and anyone else here too), and chances are very good that you’ll quickly become a welcomed “regular” in this Discuss.Dramatica community!
Happy Thanksgiving and cheers indeed!
i am guilty as well. i am a stream of conscious poster. good advice key. thank you.
Thanks @keypayton - that is encouraging. Since I come from a much more active learning community, I am practiced at sharing what I think and having others chime it with corrections or other points of view without anyone getting frustrated (as the community grows together and everyone benefits). I’ll do my best to remember who is here and to communicate on the level of “busy people” and I hope that whatever I share is accepted in the most positive way, because that is what I am feeling when I share with people.
I hope you had a good Thanksgiving.
Everyone have a good weekend. I hope to catch you later. 