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Okay, if your creative work contains the phrase "question everything" in any place or context, as in "John will have an adventure that causes him to question everything!", delete all files and start over again.

If you are a film executive, take a good hard look in a mirror, think about what you've done, and go learn a goddamn trade.

"Question everything" is a hollow, lazy, overused phrase that says nothing but "I have zero commitment to putting actual content here."

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@zebratron2084 Possible exception: John descends into a Descartes-esque state where he literally questions everything, and finds proof of its existence wanting.

But "questions everything" would still be lazy summary writing.

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@hummingrain Exactly. "Everything" is a lot, and yet functionally, it is nothing at all. :)

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@zebratron2084 @hummingrain part of me wants to say that "Metamorphosis" was the only story that could have legitimately used the phrase--and I'm not 100% sure that's true, but it does make me smile for some reason...

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@zebratron2084 IS THE GOVERNMENT A CALLOUS ENTITY WHICH WILL GRIND OVER ME AND MILLIONS OF OTHERS FOR THE SAKE OF A CHOSEN FEW? Was I LIED to throughout my entire childhood? Has history been WHITEWASHED to make Christianity LOOK GOOD? Are most movies at least in part FORMULEIC POT BOILERS in a cynical scramble for moolah? Is a 2011 Jetta REALLY all that great an investment? Do I WANT a BURRITO?

this summer in a world in the future one man

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@zebratron2084

even if it is played as a joke?
like in the middle of his adventure he is seized by the compulsion to start grabbing everyone and everthing he sees and subjecting them to an incompetent interrogation? including himself in the mirror with a head lamp?

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@001zlnv That's different and you should pursue this example as soon as possible :) There is ALWAYS an exception for satire in my world. :)

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