How do you relax?
I have been watching a lot of Netflix documentaries about serial killers. Yes, things at work are that good.
But what I notice about these documentaries is that they all push a single idea: police are bad. They are bad, bad, bad. So bad, in fact, that you end up reaching a conclusion that we’d be better off defunding them all into the infinity.
It takes a lot of ingenuity to get this message into stories about scary serial killers who were apprehended, brought to justice, and removed from society. You’d think that’s an argument in favor of having a criminal justice system. But Netflix keeps redoing Making a Murderer, getting people used to the idea that they should give up everything that guarantees their well-being for their own good.
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“they all push a single idea: police are bad”
Could someone remind me why educated, affluent people like those who write the scripts, fund the shows, and so on, would think this?
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“affluent people like those who write the scripts, fund the shows, and so on, would think this?”
Class self-interest? The affluent historically don’t rely much on public services and resent them as giving hoi polloi an (undeserved!) leg up where they might be in a position to threaten them (or their snowflake offspring) so they market defund or abolish the police to keep the joe budweiser and jerome maltliquor and jorgedosequis at each others’ throats….
the problem is that people who wouldn’t be insulated are conned into doing the legwork…. case in point (not the most… dispassionate retelling but better than lots of other versions I’ve seen)
https://nypost.com/2023/09/08/shivanthi-sathanandan-police-hater-gets-carjacked-by-reality/
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It feels cool, fashionable. It makes them feel important, indispensable, young. Human beings are very good at catching the spirit of the times and exhibiting compliance.
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I don’t think the writers are feeling so affluent right now since they haven’t received an income in months due to the strikes.
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That’s interesting. The true crime books I’ve read definitely lean the other way on the whole. In fact, many of these books are written by cops who worked on the case. It may matter that these books probably aren’t as recent as the Netflix shows you’re watching.
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