Eve, here. I don’t watch TV, so I can’t comment on using The Wire as an example of how things work. However, some shows seem to have had some social impact through their uncomfortable degree of verisimilitude. Even though Survivor placed its participants in a fake setting, the resulting human experience was often a more graphic version of what viewers experienced in real life. I felt fascinated by the dynamics of Sex and the City is said to have been a cultural influence, depicting the glamorous fantasies of highly sexually active women. I’m sure our readers have West Wing-like examples to add to The Wire’s case studies, so we hope you enjoy them.
As an aside, if only the embedded clip had been viewed, a competent litigator would not have allowed Mr. Omar’s grandstanding. He would have quickly limited the answer to “yes” or “no.” Similarly, I do not agree with Neuburger’s view of the French Revolution, as I have focused on the period of the Industrial Revolution in England and France. Yes, as I have repeatedly pointed out, it took nearly 100 years to achieve a permanent republic in the form of the Third Republic. But as experts say, based on extensive archival research, a decade after the revolution, adult men in France no longer consider themselves citizens and subjects of the king. It was. The large-scale bureaucratic reforms carried out by Napoleon Ward From standardizing education to enforcing meritocratic access to elite educational institutions, his rule survived and became a fundamental element of France’s modernization. Thus, despite his Bourbon Restoration from 1815 to 1830, the break with the previously constituted monarchy was permanent. Overview of the history of that regime:
When Louis became king, he promulgated a constitution known as the Charter, which maintained many of the freedoms won during the French Revolution and provided for a parliament consisting of an elected House of Commons and a House of Lords appointed by the King.
A constitution, the Charter of 1814, was drawn up. This law established all French people as equal before the law, but retained the substantial privileges of the king and nobility, and limited voting rights to those who paid at least 300 francs a year in direct taxes…
Despite the return of the Bourbons to power, much had changed in France. The egalitarianism and liberalism of the revolutionaries remained an important force, and the authoritarianism and hierarchy of the earlier era could not be completely restored.
Neuberger might argue that this supports his claim that change has been slow. But we are looking at it in comparison to the modern end state and projecting it backwards. The transition from an absolute hereditary monarchy to a constitutional monarchy in which the people had substantive rights guaranteed by law was itself a major change.
Written by Thomas Neuberger. It was first published in god’s spy
“You want it to be one-way. But it’s the other way around.” How should we respond to that?
“Why would shelter providers try to eliminate homelessness when they depend on them to pay their living expenses, including occasional living expenses? exorbitant salary Does it go to executives? ”
—chronicle of philanthropy, here
“A decision maker acts as if he sees only one type of success and one type of failure. He considers his own humiliation or loss of job or power to be catastrophic. The genocide of “others” is seen by those in power as something that can be used covertly as a means of power, but they publicly acknowledge norms that exclude it as “unthinkable.” There is.
—Daniel Ellsberglooking back at the reasons why the Vietnam War dragged on (lightly edited and quoted) here)
“(All institutions) golden rules of organization: Those who control the system value their own power within the system above all else, rather than the power of the system itself. Therefore, they would rather the organization “fail” while retaining power within the organization than for the organization to “succeed” if they have to lose power within the organization. ”
—John Schwartz, small revolution
“You want it to be one-way. But it’s the other way around.”
—Marlo Stanfield in wire
Thanks to recent news and what I’ve been reading and watching recently, I’ve come to believe that any group tends to stabilize as it is currently constructed and resist sudden change.
Change is always there, but slowly
Of course, change happens everywhere. talked about here:
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It’s inevitable.words pronunciation drifts From region to region. Changes the government is implementing (See also here); belief evolution or recycling. But sudden changes, changes that make those who benefit from “stability” uncomfortable, or worse, cause them to lose their jobs, are strongly resisted. by individuals, by groups, and by society as a whole. By social groups of people and their structure. Act intentionally and organically.
All society’s rulers want is sudden change that benefits them.
Rebellion vs. Real Revolution
This truth is built into the way humans operate, especially in large groups. People don’t want sudden change unless they’re really suffering, and society is built to resist it.
In fact, that fact is spelled out in our company’s founding documents.from declaration of independence:
All experience has shown that mankind is more inclined to suffer, while evil is endured, than to correct itself by abolishing the forms to which it is accustomed.
Riots often occur suddenly. They either succeed or fail. But even when successful, a pre-revolutionary culture generally prevails. “Landlord rule” characterized the United States both before and after the state split from its founders. The French Revolution produced two emperors. Russia replaced one tsar with another, and “tsarist rule” still prevails there today (though to some extent) Certainly help from Bill Clinton’s America.; see also here).
Rebellions are quick, but real revolution, real change, is extremely slow.
The world of “The Wire”
I just finished binge-watching all the works over several weeks. wirea television show that depicts the lives of the working class and underclass of Baltimore in the mid-2000s, in other words, the pretentious people and how they live.
This show is full of people who are “going against the system” and genuinely trying to make things better. Some people have limited success. Teachers influence children. A boy is rescued. Some of the characters in Greek tragedy (Sobotka and Omar), comic survivors are shown (The Bank), and the miracle of personal salvation (foam, of course). In short, good things happen.
But the whole culture is just like a great wandering lazy river, moving with great mass and small force, as if it were self-directed. All attempts to change it, no matter where they are attempted, will largely always fail. As before, the police force will be controlled by hacking. Politicians do not go beyond their personal ambitions when called upon to do so. Drug bosses change their ways, but the changes are minimal. They get better (stringer bell), then worsened (Marlo Stanfield), then it got slightly better again (slim charles).
But for both rich and poor, a game is a game. they know it. they work in it. You win and you lose, but no one wins the game.they just whether it is in it or not.
Human collective culture, a wandering, lazy river. Things might get better in 50 years. The river may move. But don’t expect it next week.
the life we live
wire This is obviously fiction, set in a culture that one character describes as hellish. But the lessons are the same elsewhere.
I live in downtown Portland, a major city in Oregon. Over the years, homelessness and drug use patterns have gone from bad to worse. Fueled by a lab-created virus, cheap fentanyl (anecdotally, it hits for $1), and the inability of anyone in power to take such action. Don’t risk your funds or location.
There are infighting leadership, entrenched nonprofits, uninterested pro-right cops, and sudden policy changes (Measure 110) with no forethought on how to properly implement the policy.
Over time, the city will be purified. Mid-century Montreal is a good example. If you go back a long way, Portland is no different.
However, this process takes time.
This is all I want to say…
What I mean by this is that you can want to make rivers move or deserts green, and it is a noble thing to try. But understand that any job big enough will last beyond your lifetime.
Not that these big enough tasks aren’t worth doing if that’s what you want to do. I’ve always been a fan of freedom. However, understand what you signed up for and plan accordingly.
this it’s not It means that there are no miracles left in the world. They are always there. And there is no reason why you can’t be happy unless you are in a lot of pain. But being personally happy, achieving great and worthy achievements, and seeing the world as a world are not contradictory.
This observation need not determine how we respond emotionally. Personally, I’m as satisfied as ever. My novels are a lot of fun to write, and no one I know has died. At least not yet.
This is just the world and what we do in large groups.
be happy. Please wake up.
On that last point: We are faced with what is in front of us: Gaza, the next election, and our horribly empty choices. The sickly wealthy and their deaths control the climate. The fact that attempts to overthrow the cult of greed and plunder are often initially thwarted by both the victims and the criminals, we, as souls, do our best to approach all this with equanimity equal to understanding. have to face it.
Does death make life sweeter? That should not happen and should not be allowed to happen.
“There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” It is possible to be happy and awake. Try to be both.
