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comment by camarillobrillo
camarillobrillo  ·  3716 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Utopia/Dystopia: Unpacking Fox's retrograde flop

    they both understood that you had to have certain things before you could know certain things.

    This attitude, when stripped of O’Connor’s unsparing awareness of the hypocrisy and moral ugliness it embodies, represents a kind of comfort to people who feel alienated or angered by anything or anyone they don’t understand — it tells them that if they grasp people as types, they know all they need to know and don’t need to tax themselves with empathy, or even with specifics.

Bingo. Honestly I'm surprised (and relieved) this show is bombing. We the People aren't as mindless as Fox would like to believe.

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