I forgot to say, when a show fails to highlight something properly, it puts it at risk of being seen as perpetuative instead. This is why shows like The Boys and IASIP get latched onto by the conservative demographic, as by failing to highlight an issue, the audience can very easily ignore them and use these characters as self inserts. This means that even a show with all intents to highlight issues can still perpetuate negative things simply because they failed to do a good job at highlighting the problem.
Next someone will do a series called ‘The Duke Boys’, w/o comics, just live action. The Southlander will be the celebrated hero that can do no wrong. And the cultural shift might start going in that direction.
Yet I don’t see a better way out of that, to drive humanity/culture forward. You need people to evolve, and you can’t really do that without education.
Having racists brainwashed into not begin racists isn’t a permanent fix, or perhaps even a bad long-term fix.
(But it does make the lives of so many minorities better for a time, which is huge, those are actual lives being lived.)
Pretending that racism either doesn’t exist or having propaganda against racism just reduces the issue into a simplistic yes/no contest.
And social issues should not be treated as sports.
I forgot to say, when a show fails to highlight something properly, it puts it at risk of being seen as perpetuative instead. This is why shows like The Boys and IASIP get latched onto by the conservative demographic, as by failing to highlight an issue, the audience can very easily ignore them and use these characters as self inserts. This means that even a show with all intents to highlight issues can still perpetuate negative things simply because they failed to do a good job at highlighting the problem.
I agree with that point.
And I agree with the harm it can cause.
Next someone will do a series called ‘The Duke Boys’, w/o comics, just live action. The Southlander will be the celebrated hero that can do no wrong. And the cultural shift might start going in that direction.
Yet I don’t see a better way out of that, to drive humanity/culture forward. You need people to evolve, and you can’t really do that without education.
Having racists brainwashed into not begin racists isn’t a permanent fix, or perhaps even a bad long-term fix.
(But it does make the lives of so many minorities better for a time, which is huge, those are actual lives being lived.)
Pretending that racism either doesn’t exist or having propaganda against racism just reduces the issue into a simplistic yes/no contest.
And social issues should not be treated as sports.