For quite a long time I watched little TV other than News and stuff on politics. Having slipped into a groove of wanting to quit myself of the constant urge to regurgitate over both,I began to look at what else on the screen might be palatable. Oddly, the same programs I enjoyed in the early 60s are still enjoyable. Why is it that Murder She Wrote, Perry Mason, Matlock, Diagnosis Murder and many others of the time are being rerun.
While I disbelieve that living in the past is fruitful, at the moment I find that reading and watching TV of things in past when the law always worked as it should and ends in truth for convictions. Short of showing only negative and violent realities, the worst that happens is always done by a 'bad guy' and in the end the good guy is vindicated. If we had to be lied to, it was much more pleasant knowing it was only a story than the lies from all corners to which we are currently subjected, from the top down.
If only our government worked that way! Wouldn't it be great if the bad guys faced justice? Wouldn't it be comforting to know that police, lawyers and major authority figures had integrity and used it on their jobs and in their personal lives. Will it happen before we have a human community on Mars?
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