  I must admit, I've not been blogging as much as I should be. I think that's mostly due to over-ambition. The last post was supposed to have all these links, etc. But, I think it might be more important to me to just get something down.
No one reads this but me, anyway, so why not? So I dreamt a movie last night. I don't do that too often, but when I do, it's fairly complete. Actors, sets, plot, sub-plot the whole bit. This one was called "the War of the Ants". Basically, An Alien virus is introduced to an Ant colony on Earth, which alters their genetics to evolve selectively to be competition with Humans in the space of a single generation. Language, size, etc. But they retain the instinct of an Ant colony. Very rigid and orderly.
But, all that is essentially back drop to the movie. The movie primarily concerns two men. One a shaggy Liberationist: think hippie-meets-Che Guevera. The other is a button down desk Jockey in the military. The course of the movie follows them, as the interact training seperate groups of soldiers engaged in guerilla war against the Ants. As they progress, the Hippie discovers that his methods are too scattershot, and too undisciplined. He reacts by growing more and more codified, crystallized, and stiff: in short he becomes very rigid, very strict, and very concerned with order. Meanwhile, the desk Jockey starts out as insecure. He's unsure of what, if any training ability he has. But, he is a soldier, and, as such, has the background of duty that he feels he must do what he can. So, he starts out training very much (literally) by the book. He follows the training manual to the letter. But, as situations arise that the manual doesn't cover (we are talking, after all about "GIANT ANTS") he starts to "wing it" more and more. Soon, he's thrown out the manual, and is instructing his trainees to go with instinct, to disrupt order, and to fight "dirty".
By movie's end, both men feel they are better than as they started, but both are horrified at how much people are ruled by their instincts as much as the dreaded ants. Probably, that's a movie that will never exist outside of my skull, but if anybody reads this and wants to steal the idea, feel free.... 
