Ok, so I've been suckered again. I'm watching 24 for yet another season. Every season it disappoints but it is an "action" drama so I keep coming back for more.
But it occurred to me tonight that it's a perfect vehiicle for the "moral minority" to impose their view of the world on Americans. Unrelenting violence, the end justifies the means, a very dark and distopian vision of America under threat. Sort of an end of days view of the world, probably not dissimilar to what is preached in many fundamentalist churches all over America.
I was struck by the show has no obscenity, and no sexuality. The absence of both making it very much more acceptable to the minority.
Just a thought for you conspiracy theorists out there.
Posted by artandscience at March 2, 2009 10:32 PM