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In watching TV from the recession era, 2007-14, it strikes me that people anticipated everything that was going wrong, but just way underestimated the magnitude and way overestimated the ability of governance to compensate. Off by an order of magnitude on both fronts.
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A good sequence of shows to watch is Eureka, Covert Affairs, Person of Interest, Mr. Robot. Evolution in popular view of the “deep state” trope from benevolent-campy to malevolent-gritty. Could do other genres too. Similar evolution.
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If I had time I’d take on a project of tracing foreshadowing of history in tv as a lead indicator I believe you could forecast the future based on popularity of new tv shows given enough variety. Reboot culture screws this up a bit.
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