Just got to listen to the tragedy in Italy, my heart goes out to all concerned.

But this isn't mafia or traditional terrorism. Most likely this was an individual with narcissistic or psychopathic tendencies, not very intelligent who has been snubbed by a girl at the school. Probably there wasn't even an actual bond between him and the object of his desire. The revenge was too impersonal for something like that to have been. He's a loner, hangs on the web and doesn't even understand what he's done because it was never intended to kill anyone, only scare them shit less and give the individual back the power he felt he lost when he was "turned" down.

These are the kind of people we are producing in this culture of egoism.

We are going to pay for this culture for a very long time. The culture of intra-societal warfare war brings this.

Let's see what kind of a profiler I am? I just can't compute what is happening right now, I turn on the rational side and shut down the emotional. Because this development scares me shit less.

Can't wait till I get home tomorrow to watch Community.

Sto pensando a voi, tutti gli Italiani colpiti dai disastri economici, emotionali ed umanitari. Sto pensando a tutti vittimi. E mi mancano le parole.

Sat, 19:53: Man is watching Bambi with the little uns. He has a hard time comforting them right now :)

Taking on society by 'psychologizing' normal reactions to culturally defined diseases was pure gold.

Abed goes 'nuts' after being expelled from college? And should be committed? Oh yes, keep giving us those punches, I love it.

College as a mirror of society is just pure fricken gold. All with the game pieces, an insane dean as the front-figure for other forces and Abed's tendencies to deal through escapism. It's so goddamn true and hilarious I laughed till my sides hurt.

"Why would you lie to make us think we're crazy?"

Love this show.

which is rather glaring now that Iäve wwatched some old series like Northern Exposure and All Creatures Great and Small. And it's changed tremendously these past few years.

Is it like Glassner says? That media mirrors society instead of the common held belief that it forms it?

I'd say yes.

Something happened during these 10 years and it ain't pretty.

Take CSI at the beginning. We followed victims, we had emotional responses to disasters, there was a social ethos. Not anymore. Now we follow individuals and their struggles for egocentric goals. Looking back to the beginning of the show, when cases affected the characters and gave us ann understanding of the it has turned into how the characters affect the stories. Everyone seems isolated, in a bubble of their own. Same goes for most of the series I followed. Bones - started out with a heavy social pathos with Bones' struggles with her idiosyncrasies and her background. That is pretty much gone now and the story is about the individuals on the show, and how they deal, pretty much solely with their own isolated issues. This flattens the characters and forces the writers to turn to melodrama to make them interesting. Just because they lack the very basic element in every individual's life; society as a primer, society carrying a moral-code (shared or unshared by the character, it's always present) and most of all, the character as a part of the society and simultaneously socialized by it. This alone has plenty of stories to tell.

Granted, I don't watch much TV any longer because narrow, isolated POVs are boring me to death. I need some social pathos to remain interested.

Not even hot guys or gals can make up for lacking in something I consider very basic; social pathos.

Even SPN, a show that should have been canned ages ago, had something of a social pathos in season 1 and 2. There were consequences of actions mirrored in society, moral-codes were played on and the individuals on the outskirts of said society were addressed, That was before the story became a ludicrous fan-serving mish-mash of ripped-off fanfic and dropped storylines. Granted, the show was never very good but it had some interesting features that were buried and forgotten thanks to a very vocal on-line fandom. 

Much like CSI did with the horrid romance (thanks to fandom) that literally slaughtered two of the main characters. Or the fact that the racism got very overt with the POCs beating up poor Greg.
Every new show I've tried to watch lately has one thing in common; lack of societal background to which the characters react and interact.

All but one; Community.
That show stands out because it does take societal issues very seriously. It's not in a very overt way but dagnabbit, it mocks us endlessly and I love it. It handles the college like the micro-cosmos it is and places the characters firmly within a world has is pretty much a caricature of today's commercially funded society.