why is Western media, unable to produce TV dramas about the systenatic corruption of western society? I am thinking primarily about the UK… butnit is the same anywhere in Europe…
i wonder if its a problem of writers as well as producers and corporations… are they incapable of creating dramas that deal with the systematic corruption that is part of our institutions? Or is it that they simply do not think of this as something they can make…
@sz_duras The Norwegian national broadcaster is running an interesting one called "The seed" at the moment: https://tv.nrk.no/serie/the-seed - not sure if it is viewable anywhere else.
@skalden what corruption is it dealing with?
@sz_duras It is about a big corporation trying to achieve a seed monopoly. In the process, they bribe EU politicians. They are designing the seed that makes the farmers forever dependent on them. They also try to destroy a seed that would free them and solve the food crisis. Some of the backstory has real-life parallels.
@sz_duras There is very little tolerance for it in Norwegian media and politics. There have been several scandals in the last year where ministers have changed because of problems with impartiality. The spouses of politicians buying weapon shares while the politicians themselves are handling issues about whether the government should buy weapons for Ukraine, for example. Norwegian politics are assumed to be quite clean, but because of this intolerance rather than innate honesty. I guess we believe politicians in other regimes to be more corrupt than our own, in particular third-world and autocratic regimes. I guess the power of the oil lobby and so on is underestimated, though.
@skalden very different understanding from the rest of europe where corruption of police, juridicial, politics and corporations, upper classes is normal…
@sz_duras By the way, there is another Norwegian TV series from a couple of years back called Exit based on interviews with rich people that looks at their tax evasion and decadent habits. It is well worth seeing if you can find it. It made a stir her. At the moment there is a series called Makta that looks at the power struggle of the Norwegian Labour party in the 70s and 80s. It is more about the dirty side of politics rather than corruption, though
@skalden for example: whilst Israel bombs Gaza in blatent ethnic cleansing - UK universities sign new research partnerships with Israel -
@sz_duras I think this could happen here as well. It sounds to me like it is in a grey zone between what is illegal and what is ethical
@skalden is it a normal part of the local discourse to assume corruption of politics, police, prosecution, corporations, institutions, the upper classes?