In These Times

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• • 17 Mar 06
  • 1:59 pm

  >>A stoic John Wayne has been replaced.... Thank god for it, too. That's the type who believed guns solved problems, might could make right, and women didn't know what they wanted until they met a man who'd could dominate her and tell her. I'll go for the new metrosexual--the idea that anyone can be "grown up...settled, comfortable, stable, responsible..." in a world where nothing is settled or stable, where comfortable means looking the other way at global problems such as war and polution, and responsible is the idea of being a good tax payer home-owner is insane. It's about time things …

  Posted to Men Growing Up to be Boys

• • 17 Mar 06
  • 2:39 pm

  To say "24 Hours" is just a show is to ignore how popular culture mirrors its world just as much as it influences those who participate. Fasion in Revolutionary France was all about identifying your politcal beliefs; every ruler knows the value of using art to create heroes in the form of statues and idols. And art is still about saying something, even if the art is commercial television. So it's worth asking questions about what our culture shows us--good fiction is about stirring the pot and bringing those questions out. And maybe the real value is not the answers we …

  Posted to Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency