Notwithstanding the fact that The Shield is a pretty violent and, I think they call it, hyper-realist show in and of itself. It is. Sometimes its really pretty shocking to watch.
But then they showed a short preview for a movie called Meltdown, they also showed a damned long preview for Denzel's new asskick movie Man of Fire but that's another post. Meltdown is the heart warming story of terrorists targeting and taking over one of America's 103 nuclear reactors. Yeah, whodda thought we had 103 of the buggers? So we are now forced to consider the possibility, and of course since it will be portrayed so well, the real possibility in our minds that terrorists are probably stalking the nuke plants right now and that people in this world really and truly do want to ruin and destroy America and kill as many of us as possible.
Wow, really that just kind of sucks to read in print. It sucks that the fear we are all immersed in every day has palpable reasons, look at Madrid, look at Indonesia, look at New York. Fear of terrorist attack, fear of the boss catching you looking at nudie pics when you should be working and you sneak peeks anyway, fear of the nimrod in the Monte Carlo who's just spun a hundred and eight degrees ON THE HIGHWAY who then proceeds to actually drive his car across the highway to get back heading south, fear of all the dangers my as yet unborn little kid faces that I will be powerless to protect him or her from.
The culture of fear lives on. Fear of the creeping suspicion that everyone everywhere BUT you are in on some kind of huge and bizarre conspiracy to confound and slow down your life while making money hand over fist that you'll never sniff a dollar of, fear that no matter what you do you'll never find true love or worse, fear that found true love and let it get away, fear that one day you will have to realize that you either settle or you grow old alone, fear that you really are nothing but a bag of wind and some false confidence, fear of attack in the night, fear of losing everything, fear of losing my family, fear of fearing too much.
Fear because the world is a dangerous and violent place ruled by fear that fuels anger and depression and all the other societal ills. No wonder the pharmco's are doing such a bang up business. People are scared of damned near everything and the fear manifests itself as anger and the anger is contagious. One pissed off dickweed in a commute can wreck about a hundred people's days and they may go on to wreck a hundred more. Who hasn't gotten to work one day and actually not done anything wrong but you still get reamed by your boss anyway? Bad days are contagious in a way that good ones just can't duplicate.
Meltdown, add this to your list of nightmares brought to you by Fear Unlimited. Fear's gotten us to where we are today. Fear makes you look at your neighbors and wonder if they've got bodies buried in their basements or if they're pedophiles. Fear makes you see yourself, in way over your head like you're drowning. Fear keeps you up at night watching bad tv and thinking about shotguns and closed circuit tv and security systems.
On an aside, this is supposed to be TV turnoff week.
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