NP: creeping fascism on the tube

[Rev'd Seventy-Six]

"We’ve recently become a nation that openly embraces torture and
assassination. Not on the sly and under the pretense of a cold war that
could theoretically wipe out the country and perhaps all of humanity, but
as standard procedure, ostensibly to avoid a one in ten million chance of
being killed by a terrorist, which is a pretty flimsy excuse. 25% of us
even think it would be OK to use nuclear bombs to preempt a terrorist
attack.

*"So you think that’s why Hannibal [*tube show based on Thomas Harris'
preening psychopath*] is popular, or that it’s part of a secret program to
nazify the population?*

"No. But cultural expressions don’t pop up out of nowhere. I’m sure tribes
of real cannibals sing songs about being cannibals. And we have shows that
fetishize violence and mutilation to an extent that nobody would have
believed possible 20 years ago, just as they would never believe we would
be a pro-torture nation. And now we have a popular show where the hero
tortures people on screen. A stupid show."

http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/14865/hannibal-tv-review/
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