> The truth is that these days revolution can only be televised. And that is itself cathartic for both the author and for the audience. One thing I notice, apa

> The truth is that these days revolution can only be televised. And that is itself cathartic for both the author and for the audience. One thing I notice, apart from all the stuff that outright glorifies militarism and sadism, or makes serious concerns seem ridiculous: even when it's "good guys in a bad situation", even if they end up "winning", so often what's displayed thoroughly and realistically, with great attention to detail is the violence, the abuse, the pain, the mechanisms of control, all the negative stuff... but the hero usually wins via some silly thing that is not realistic, or even just luck. On average, you often see realistic horrible things, and that's either unsolved altogether, with an unhappy ending -- or it gets solved by means that are not realistic. Like drawing bad things with permanent marker and nice things with water color, then washing the surface with water.. the realistic stuff sticks, the rest fades. At the end of the day, a person got used to seeing more people getting hurt, more arguments resolved with witty one-liners, more people getting murdered -- but they didn't get anything useful for themselves, just some numbing and conditioning, maybe even a bit of fear to take home with them. I have to think of The Last Days of Sophie Scholl, that movie certainly isn't "happy". I was sad and upset after seeing it. But it still gave me more than it took, if you know what I mean. Most writers and actors should simply be ashamed, consider manual labor and never speak again. But that's just my actually unpopular, but earnest opinion.