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Perito Political Scientist - Smugglers of the series are models for society?

One lawyer also is a political scientist (the Association of Political Scientists and Sociologists of Madrid ), just as expert help in the preparation of a report ( cathode dealers 'PrimeTime' ) for the daily 20 minutes on the role played by drug traffickers in the drama series like The Wire , Breaking Bad , Weeds , and Lost . The reason for my intervention was none other than the study from a social point of view, the political influence that these characters have on society and in particular on young or adolescent stratum. "They are becoming role models?

My conclusion is far more elaborate than the newspaper has seen fit to publish, censored, has aptly-all those ugly and strange sounding words we use the guild. Try to follow the example of 20 minutes to explain in very few lines and clearly the most interesting part of the reasoning:

The persecution of the forbidden by the experience of others' experiences is one of the main reasons that is leading society to worship and idolize characters who use or traffic in drugs in certain sets of TV, no simple conversion of the latter in mere models, far from it. It is more mystical and if you permit me, at once more human. It is the pursuit of transgression, of breaking rules and, ultimately, the flight of the establishment.

Those who you have studied philosophy you will remember Thomas Hobbes enunciated by one of Latin expressions that have been repeated over the course of time: "Homo homini lupus" (man is a wolf to man). The phrase has its origin, however, the work Asinaria of Titus Marcius Plautus , but Hobbs has been who is giving over the sociopolitical construction made in his work Leviathan about the selfish nature of man. The human being is born free but doomed to a constant struggle with their peers about the lack of rules and laws governing, moderate and order their peaceful coexistence. To avoid this fight, the man signed a "social pact" with the State, before which becomes submissive citizen under the laws of society. The characters of these series offenders break somehow this Social Pact and released from the shackles of the state, imposing its own regime of free coexistence with society.

Through these series, the viewer becomes part of those experiences and feelings that in real life could not, would not or did not dare to live, or by the legal implications they entail, either by affecting the health and well due to proper structuring of ethical and moral values. The appearance of these characters released in a way the trend toward what is forbidden, but the same time, control and mitigate their risk of occurrence. The spectator who might have been attracted to the breaking of the covenant, no longer be, as the series makes it live sensory experience and is satisfied. It is true that for part of the population these experiences can become rites of initiation and be driven to follow the behavior of the characters, making them role models to follow, but is a marginal trend that only affects, in general, individuals weak personality or antisocial tendencies. Average citizens experienced as a form of mystical abstract of your daily routine for a few minutes and jump to the adventure and risk offered by peak experiences.

Luckily I have asked Dexter , because that there is indeed some fabric to cut ...

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Image: Promotional poster for the 4th season of Weeds