Local journalist, Gregory Holman has started blogging.
In a recent post, he wrote about CBS’s new show Jericho. [A show I had never heard of. But CBS lets you watch entire episodes online. Something I dreamed of six years ago.]

Holman writes,

“Regardless, the show’s producers have a tight grasp of our culture’s psychodramas. If we believe a mysterious force could destroy Denver, Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Diego, plus multiple other metropolises—all in a single day—what does that say about our collective imagination? Fiction gets its power from being plausible; for Jericho to have an audience, that audience must think the show makes some sense (if not a whole lot). Begs the question: How realistic is this? Do we believe al-Qaida could do such a thing? Or Iran? Or China? On some level, however buried, we must.

What does that say about us?”

I wouldn’t have normally blogged about this, but I wasn’t allowed to comment on Holman’s site, so I’ll post my comment here:
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Don’t forget North Korea…

“What does that say about us?”

It says we’re scared. Our sense of security was violently shaken five years ago. Even the strongest, the most positive, the most brave, the least frightened… feel somewhere deep down inside that something horrifying really could happen on any day. Something that we can’t control. Something that our government can’t contain. We know it’s true. Because we tasted it five years ago when we watched our countrymen die by the thousands on live TV.