A Picture Is Worth 4

4 comments

1. George Smith

   November 13, 2015 at 5:44 pm

   Answer: When the military solution was expanded to solve every problem.

   Now it’s cultural. All solutions now involve using the hammer because if it happens to you, you had it coming.

    
2. Frank

   November 13, 2015 at 10:24 pm

   It’s reflected in television mystery shows also.

   Almost every entry with a warrant is portrayed as requiring a SWAT team any more; if there’s no SWAT team, the guns are always drawn. I really liked NUMBERS, but the pervasive SWAT teams annoyed the heck out of me, even if they did create jobs for extras.

    
3. George Smith

   November 15, 2015 at 10:44 pm

   I agree. It’s why I don’t watch them. There was one I stumbled into on Hulu about a woman, an FBI agent/ex-Navy SEAL or something, with an elaborate tattoo on her back, one which she has no idea how she got. And is supposed to be a Ouja board of crime used every episode. It was all just special forces teams, her and her partner, another muscle-bound freak with a stubble leaping out of big black SUVs with tinted windows, gunning down alleged bad people, kicking, punching and chopping like ultimate fighting contestants.

   It was beyond wretched. Blacklist with James Spader is much like it. Except for Spader, everyone in these shows is armed to the teeth, steroidally over-muscled (the men aways looking ex-US Army with stubble), and deadly with their hands, feet, elbows, heads and thighs.Plus they usually torture someone once or twice a show.

    
4. Frank

   November 15, 2015 at 11:37 pm

   British mystery shows are much better than the American ones.

   I have been watching CSI: Cyber, if only to laugh at it. The vulnerabilities they base the stories on are quite real and mind needs to be paid to them, but everything else about how white hat hacking works in real time is complete and absolute hooey of the highest degree. They have fancy graphics where a real hacker, regardless of the color of his hat, would be looking at white text against a black background in a terminal, and the pretzel twists they invent to pipe some suspense into each episode are are not laughable–they are pathetic.

   Criswell predicts that it won’t make it to season two-and-a-half.