It's quite insidious, it instills the idea that justice always prevails in the end, bad guys get their comeuppance, that there is someone in charge making sure everything is going to be ok and that's simply just not the case.
The cops walk away from a job well done at the end of every episode. They're everyone's best friend and nobody is worried about talking to them without a lawyer.
Yeah and they are like good hearted people with a conscience and strong sense of justice. Even the mavericks who dont play by the rules but by god they get results.
Certainly. I'm talking more about some hypothetical better future when they wouldn't be. Media has been consciously crafted to make chuds the way they are, and it can be used to unmake chuds, too.
Its wild how much a lot of peoples ideas and framework for how the world works comes almost entirely from american tv and movies.
"On television, we found more than 1,100 titles received Pentagon backing – 900 of them since 2005, from ‘Flight 93’ to ‘Ice Road Truckers’ and ‘Army Wives’"
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Ahh fuck, not ice road truckers!
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It's quite insidious, it instills the idea that justice always prevails in the end, bad guys get their comeuppance, that there is someone in charge making sure everything is going to be ok and that's simply just not the case.
See: every crime drama ever.
The cops walk away from a job well done at the end of every episode. They're everyone's best friend and nobody is worried about talking to them without a lawyer.
It's like, just-world heroin.
Yeah and they are like good hearted people with a conscience and strong sense of justice. Even the mavericks who dont play by the rules but by god they get results.
Don't forget those stupid lawyers and annoying civil rights that keep preventing our heroes from solving the case!
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The upside of this is that those same media channels can be used to deprogram the chud half of the country.
theyre owned by the people who have the least incentive to deprogram chuds though
Certainly. I'm talking more about some hypothetical better future when they wouldn't be. Media has been consciously crafted to make chuds the way they are, and it can be used to unmake chuds, too.