Jay Ulfelder notes that protest coverage poorly matches protest activity, and normalizes the status quo.
After about a year my home family has watched all of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, and a couple seasons of Columbo. Why now? I’m not sure, but Alan Jacobs' recent The Integrity of the System intrigues me.
| ❝ | [Sayers] makes a fascinating suggestion: that while stories about crime always have flourished and always will flourish, stories of detection depend on the reader’s confidence in the basic integrity of the forces of law and order. |
Maybe it’s therapy. Re-read the essay for more nuance.
Some perspective from Alan Jacobs:
| ❝ | I don’t believe there’s anything more morally corrupting that an utterly single-minded focus on defeating your political enemies, even when those political enemies really deserve to be defeated. |
…because
| ❝ | only fully human persons, persons formed by wide and generous encounters with the whole of humanity, are able to think and act wisely in the political realm. |
See alsoBreaking Bread With the Dead