Re: "Jericho" on CBS
While that DOES strain willing suspension of disbelief, I think where they're going is that the people of Jericho (and my extention the rest of the US) have been irradiated, starved, shot at and otherwise messed with etc - and along comes a guy who's promising stability, food, security and a 'return to greatness'. So we know at least 1 division (10th Mt) is supporting him but that may not be the entire military.
There's the old axiom - American society is 2 paychecks away from revolution: Meaning that if you cut off food, water, heat, security etc society will devolve into anarchy - and people in an anarchical situation will glom onto stability - especially if it feels at least similar to what they were used to. I'm looking at this season as a sort of allegory to the rise of Nazi-ism in Germany in the inter-war period. Chaos and depravation during the early Weimar period - a group offering stability, work and a return to greatness wrapping itself in subtly altered versions of traditional national archtypes won the loyalty of a majority of the people, the army and got a nation to change it's flag to something very different. It's far from impossible.
Originally posted by Kittrick
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There's the old axiom - American society is 2 paychecks away from revolution: Meaning that if you cut off food, water, heat, security etc society will devolve into anarchy - and people in an anarchical situation will glom onto stability - especially if it feels at least similar to what they were used to. I'm looking at this season as a sort of allegory to the rise of Nazi-ism in Germany in the inter-war period. Chaos and depravation during the early Weimar period - a group offering stability, work and a return to greatness wrapping itself in subtly altered versions of traditional national archtypes won the loyalty of a majority of the people, the army and got a nation to change it's flag to something very different. It's far from impossible.
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