I watched the first episode of Daredevil: Born Again, and it got me thinking about how better society could be if pop culture moved on from the idea that American cities are still stuck in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.
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I watched the first episode of Daredevil: Born Again, and it got me thinking about how much better society could be if pop culture moved on from the idea that American cities are still stuck in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.
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I watched the first episode of Daredevil: Born Again, and it got me thinking about how much better society could be if pop culture moved on from the idea that American cities are still stuck in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.
@Tim_Eagon Now you have me curious about what you mean. (I haven't watched a lot of 21st-century modern-day TV, so...)
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I watched the first episode of Daredevil: Born Again, and it got me thinking about how much better society could be if pop culture moved on from the idea that American cities are still stuck in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.
@Tim_Eagon I think about what you said and this essay by Kendra Pierre-Louis a lot.
How Movies Like 'Black Panther' Could Help Us Save the Planet
Films like Avatar and Mad Max show how humans could destroy the earth. It's time for us to tell new stories.
TIME (time.com)
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I watched the first episode of Daredevil: Born Again, and it got me thinking about how much better society could be if pop culture moved on from the idea that American cities are still stuck in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.
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@SJohnRoss LOL, but it's more insert mid-century urban decay here!
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@Tim_Eagon Now you have me curious about what you mean. (I haven't watched a lot of 21st-century modern-day TV, so...)
@pteryx NYC is a crime ridden hellhole, the NYPD is the thin blue line, crime is up because the NYPD has been weakened, vigilantes have taken their place, but the NYPD is also really corrupt.
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@pteryx NYC is a crime ridden hellhole, the NYPD is the thin blue line, crime is up because the NYPD has been weakened, vigilantes have taken their place, but the NYPD is also really corrupt.
@Tim_Eagon ...When you put it that way, yeah, one really does have to wonder if we'd be in a better political position if people weren't so prone to taking their view of reality from media that isn't meant to be realistic that some people genuinely believe the moon can't be out during the day (because it never is on TV, and it's designed specifically *not* to be in video games; moon phases just *happen*).
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@Tim_Eagon ...When you put it that way, yeah, one really does have to wonder if we'd be in a better political position if people weren't so prone to taking their view of reality from media that isn't meant to be realistic that some people genuinely believe the moon can't be out during the day (because it never is on TV, and it's designed specifically *not* to be in video games; moon phases just *happen*).
@pteryx That's specifically about the most recent Daredevil show, but a lot of TV shows and movies depict cities as lawless, violent places.
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@pteryx That's specifically about the most recent Daredevil show, but a lot of TV shows and movies depict cities as lawless, violent places.
Cities might be portrayed as lawless violent places, but cozy little crime shows tend to imply that rural villages are the murder capitals of the world, and the only people capable of stopping it are knitting circles and grannies. @Tim_Eagon @pteryx
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Cities might be portrayed as lawless violent places, but cozy little crime shows tend to imply that rural villages are the murder capitals of the world, and the only people capable of stopping it are knitting circles and grannies. @Tim_Eagon @pteryx
@Printdevil @pteryx Yeah, but crime in rural areas (which is usually per capita worse than cities) isn't part of our larger political narrative, at least not in the way cities are treated.
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@Printdevil @pteryx Yeah, but crime in rural areas (which is usually per capita worse than cities) isn't part of our larger political narrative, at least not in the way cities are treated.
I have a similar issue which is in the UK it seems fine to make a program about Northern Ireland being a hell-hole and full of corrupt police in a way that rest of the UK seem to find impalatable. There are lots of cop shows about Belfast, disproportionate to the population.
