When the writers went on strike I really couldn’t muster a fart. Like everyone else, they gotta do what they gotta do. And in the end, it wasn’t going to amount to anything permanently worthwhile because that’s how America rolls. America is not a society of proactive action. We don’t like to prevent disaster; we like to wait for it to happen to us, bitch about it, throw around blame, and go back to regular programming without ever changing course. Sometimes we duct tape and silly string together a “new plan” to protect certain vulnerable groups from repeat disaster, but it’s always half-hearted and never well thought out. It’ll be the same for writers in Hollywood. Studios will give in a little. There will be a New Deal that’ll last a couple years and be full of loopholes, but no one will care because the big names in the Writers’ Guild will call it a win at election time and the senior writers will get theirs before retiring in a few years giving no figs for the up-and-coming writers, cuz screw them, we got ours!