Tuesday, January 13, 2009
thoughts on 24
Watched the first two two-hour installments of the new season of "24" and it seems back on track but am kind of surprised it's become the big right-wing hit it is, after all it's heavy on the government conspiracy theories especially this season. Maybe in addition to a God gene we have a conspiracy gene and the conservatives can secretly indulge themselves here when they're not reading books "disproving" the various JFK conspiracy theories, chalk it up to a guilty pleasure and besides conspiracies make for good drama on TV. O'Reilly recently blasted Matt Damon and "Bourne Ultimatum" in a column because in his view it put down {gasp} our own CIA, NEVER!!! so why is "24" OK? I've said this before vis-a-vis Charlie Sheen and Rosie O'Donnell, conspiracies give our lives a sense of adventure, mystery and meaning and if every once in a while one happens to be true so much the better. Jack Bauer, we'll see where it goes.
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Seems there is no end to conspiratorial murky stuff . If we have a 'conspiracy gene', which surely the readers of Nat'l Inquirer must,
ReplyDeletewe probably hone it in grade school (cliques) and the workplace
(more cliques)..:)
The workplace these days BB, gone are the days when you wouldn't tattle, when it was still considered taboo and that's just for starters. The backstabbing, the gossip, the infighting, the vying for certain positions and these are in your little mundane jobs where people do this not even high-powered law firms. Re conspiracies per se conservative commentator Joe Sobran once said he doesn't see why they're so far-fetched, why can't you have a group of like-minded individuals with a common agenda who plan things he asked? OK, so not everything's a conspiracy but I think Tuskegee got the ball rolling on the government ones.
ReplyDeleteCliques in the workplace, now that you bring it up I was always for some reason left out of the loop as they say, always the last to find things out even though I've been there the longest. Like somebody could pass away who used to work here and by the time it gets to me it's two weeks old news and they always go "you didn't know?" Oh well maybe it's better to stay out of the loop, you stay pure that way.
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