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I’m a big Columbo fan but it is a work of fiction. You cannot reasonably pull life lessons from a scripted work of fiction.
by donohoe 5y ago
I’m a big Columbo fan but it is a work of fiction.
You cannot reasonably pull life lessons from a scripted work of fiction.
- ska 5y ago> You cannot reasonably pull life lessons from a scripted work of fiction. I think I know what you are aiming at here, but this statement is way, way too strong. It flies in the face of, well, being human. Most of we actually learn, for good or for ill, is from stories. Even most of the stuff we don't think of that way.
- donohoe 5y agoGood point. You are right. Thanks for adding this. I’m being too cynical.
- Barrin92 5y agoOf course you can, who is going to stop me, the life lesson police? In fact this is funnily enough a (meta?) lesson of Columbo. You can extract something out of anything. Whether it's true, a lie, fiction, non-fiction, if something is made with intent there's something to learn. Columbo's acuity lies in his perception and his mind much more so than in the often mundane things he looks at. It's his lack of prejudice and child like curiosity that stands out and that is as true in the world of Columbo as it is in the real one. And also maybe as a side note, most foundational texts concerning the big questions of life and underpinning most of human civilization are to large extent scripted and deliberately composed works of fiction, from the Vedas and Talmud to Shakespeare.
- pfarrell 5y agoI take it you’ve never watched “The Wire”
- kiutroap 5y agoYou could use this show to teach people never to talk to the police. Someone pays for it in almost every single episode.