24
Posted on February 21st, 2007 by cyberdov
Seems like everyone is caught up in the TV hit “24″ - including one of my favorite bloggers, the ADDeRabbi. Daphna is a big fan and I have taken to watching it with her. Last weekend I read a piece in the New Yorker which raised some concerns, notably that this is the first popular show in which the good guys, not the bad guys, regularly employ torture. The article asks the question, is the show a negative influence on our society? Excellent food for thought.
Perhaps we should be asking ourselves what makes them “the good guys,” and how it is that we know, or think we know, they are the good guys.
Well, the simple answer is, compared to the nuclear-bomb-detonating terrorists, you would have to call Jack Bauer and the CTU the good guys.