the house propaganda built

THE HOUSE PROPAGANDA BUILT

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Having this blog as about my only hobby ( of course, the reading books for its research is a good part of it ) I lead a very dull life. I don’t mind a dull life necessarily, but I do tend to blow small items out of proportion as a result. If you have a boring life, the smallest thing spices it up. So, yes, I was perhaps a bit overly excited when Fox TV advertised last nights episode of “House” as featuring a paranoid survivalist. I was actually looking forward to it for a week. It wasn’t that I came away disappointed, merely confused. While I can’t make up my mind if the show was fair or foul to our tribe, I’m more undecided about whether this was a blatant propaganda assault mirroring the Eighties or just a coincidence. Here is my reasoning. The basic texture of the show is the Doctor House has a very low opinion about pretty much everyone. That is a given. But the displeasure has always been directed towards other doctors being unable to properly diagnose medical issues, or people being unwilling/unable to discern their own or others character flaws. In an example, someone thought someone’s behavior was irrational when House knew it was just acting in self interest. But last nights show didn’t adhere to that basic structure. Rather, it seemed that an action by another was vilified even though it was rational based on fear. The fear itself was mocked, and mocked to a degree far beyond reason.

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Following the basic plot it always does, a guy shows up with a medical issue and House sends team members to investigate the residence for environmental factors to help with deciphering the cause of the illness ( for instance, plane tickets from the Congo to determine it was an exotic tropical disease, chemicals giving off a false reading for a symptom ). The team finds a hidden room with a rack of AR-15’s, probably about a dozen of them. Had the team been at all familiar with firearms, this would have made perfect sense since the AR carbine is a hideous pile of crap and so you need extra for when they break. But, being the typical New Jersey socialist sheeple, they only knew that those guns were “enough to invade Fort Knox” ( again displaying profound ignorance since there hasn’t been ANY gold in Fort Knox for about EVER ). So now the team is all agog over their patient being a rat crazy bastard. Or, as House solemnly intones, what an idiot. Now, House isn’t necessarily anti-gun. He has one hidden in a cigar box, the first place his parole officer would look. But he has utterly and with clear force of conviction declared that the reason for the arsenal makes his patient an idiot. Because the guy is convinced that the banking crisis will bring about economic Armageddon. So here begins my confusion. All together, with differing viewpoints presented, this can’t really be construed as an anti-gun show. But suddenly, House, who’s always stayed within the realm of the medical field or human psychology, is now an expert, just in this one episode, of the field of economics? To me, it doesn’t fit.

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Successful TV shows always are formulistic. The same damn thing happens show after show. Which must be why they are so beloved. We anticipate certain actions and they are delivered. It would be like a romance novel that suddenly veers into action or suspense. The reader might have read a thousand of these pulp fiction turds, and they are all about bitches being ravished. Fat Freda is immersed in a fantasy world were SHE can be ravished by a muscular hunk. The formula works. They don’t want it to change to action sequences or a “who-dunnit”. And TV shows follow the same formula to stay profitable. I’m thinking that House suddenly veered off formula. Granted, this could just be me being overly sensitive about the subject matter. And perhaps very few people noticed anything amiss. But why would House suddenly go irrational on us? Normally, he should be giving some reasoning behind his derision for an economic collapse theory. No, he just goes with a blanket “what an idiot”. To my convoluted way of thinking, denial is proof of propaganda. Sure, you have the financial press covering the “official” panicking of the inevitable “former big muckimuck of a Very Important Institution”, but that is just for public consumption of the idiots that analyze these things. They read it and then write that the sky is falling, and when the Fed creates another few trillion in bail-outs, no one disapproves.

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But now we have a subtle propaganda ploy being played out in a popular prime time TV series. We all admire and love the character of House because he is a surely grumpy professional that despite all his flaws is inevitably correct in his judgments. So, in the viewers minds, he has credibility in his opinions. In one fell swoop, the prospect of a bank collapse is discounted in the public mind. Mission accomplished, the show is now renewed another however many seasons and our little Limey actor keeps getting a fat paycheck. Again, I could be over thinking this thing. But I don’t like when things act differently. I try to seek an explanation, or a hidden motive. I could be way off, but I’m not so sure. Oh, and let’s not forget the ending of the show that was just sick and wrong and was only salt in the wound. The wife is moving out of the house. Husband thinks she is leaving him and taking the kids ( he had lied about the gun stash, not telling her- the room was added in the remodel ). Oh, no, she says. I love you. But you have to move out of the house. We can’t live there anymore. What the crap!?! The one time presence of firearms suddenly contaminates the whole house? It is now too ucky to live there? Be still my heart! I can’t believe that putrid swill. And the husband agrees! You spineless, testicleless little bitch! You wanted to protect your family, but now you’ll just change your mind and go defenseless!? You selfish pig. You get to stay with your family now, or at least as long as it is before the masses tear you limb from limb for stewpot meat. You can’t just be a provider, you must also be a protector. Regardless of what stupid bitches tell you. No wonder he didn’t tell her about the stash ( he should sue House. Crap, he’s a lawyer after all ). Now that little anti-gun, anti-male propaganda piece was surely hard to miss. No where near as subtle as the main one ( and perhaps meant as a distraction so the more important point isn’t noticed consciously ). Sigh. How sad. But no more sad and pathetic as the turn of the plot in “NCIS” towards a pro-jack booted thug theme.

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