Monday, 15 June 2009

BOSTON LEGAL:
Season Three
(2006)

80%

This series gets the essential boyishness of male relationships in White culture and the almost sexual jealousy of not wanting to share ones best friend with another man. The male bond is a rare one and often self mocked here as crypto homosexual, yet you cannot truly have more than one best friend.

Moreover, there is a warm blooded humanity at work that deals with people qua people - without the quintessential falseness of Political Correctness. Additionally, this season makes more fun of the White tendency to judge others solely by appearance than was previously the case, especially when those others are in any way different – culturally, religiously, physically or nationally. The drama thus delves into such issues as disability, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual preference, etc. This makes for good tragedy and comedy that is – paradoxically – as diverse as the fictitious legal firm here (Crane, Poole & Schmidt) is not: An ironic comment on such non diversity.

Although running out of ideas now - given that some are repeated from the first two series - this is still superior tv that deals with real world issues in a funny, realistic and engaging manner.

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Science:



No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.



Jacob Bronowski… (1908 - 74), British scientist, author. Encounter (London, July 1971).


Sleep of Reason:



The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.



Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes… (1746-1828), Spanish painter. Caption to Caprichos, number 43, a series of eighty etchings completed in 1798, satirical and grotesque in form.


Humans & Aliens:



I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.



Terence… (circa 190-159 BC), Roman dramatist. Chremes, in The Self-Tormentor [Heauton Timorumenos], act 1, scene 1.


Führerprinzip:



One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves… There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus - in other words, the party - which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Führerprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism.