Writes Bill Potter:
“House of Cards”? What silliness: the crimes depicted are sloppy yet go unpunished, the manipulations serve nothing meaningful to do with life or creating yet pass for living well, the dishonesty, the scheming, the show is a non-stop narrative of pathology presented slickly and with seriousness. I imagine that the critics and the public that are lapping it up are the people all to willing to submit, serve, admire, and elevate the sickest, most pathological types of real people similar to the show’s characters. This is the inversion, the admiration of such pathology, that has kept humanity plodding through the centuries under the heel of power grabbing psychotics. There’s an illusion of goodness to these authority figures, but like the magician’s trick the goodness is only a distraction that allows the ids to act out their pathologies behind the curtain. Humanity will always be less than what it could be as long as this inversion exists that elevates the bad over the good. “House of Cards” screams out for an intentional parody showing the power-climbers as the clowns and sickos that they are.
Writes Travis Holte:
9:35 am on April 3, 2014House of Cards gives cover to the real power brokers. Has the word “bank” been used once in the series?
