Reply #6: Exactly. What else is the show COPS for? [View All]

[tom_paine]

The proliferation of such shows, all makign entertainment out of the misery of others, surely should have been a sign to us long ago that something was going very wrong with our National Psyche.

I'd be lying if I said I saw it at the time. I mean, the whole COPS genre of entertainment-from-real-life-suffering did make me sit up and take notice, but I had no idea what I was seeing, which was some of the first steps (or perhaps the middle steps; this may have been quite a long time in coming) of our National Psyche become attuned to the dictates of totalitarianism/fascism/whatever we choose to call this new form of government Bush and Putin have created.