It sure is great when a woman loves her husband enough to give him a set of black lungs, thanks Lucy. So what was the importance of the episode either in contrast or within a parallel/comparative view of the readings? Well gosh I wouldn’t know exactly what the parallel between hegemony or bar TV is with that of an episode of I Love Lucy so I will have to try to make it seem like I might. Here we go…
Television has always been growing, either in reach, content, or both. What is cool about the episode of I heart Lucy is that I can still laugh at it. I’m still totally down with getting a good chuckle out of Ricky Ricardo’s crazy laugh and people going berserk even when they have tried to plan out their exact actions if she says it’s time to have the baby. Television has always been changing and people have always been buying into it in some way or another. Television sets are now in every place you could possibly imagine them, not just bars, bringing in more people and stealing money away from whatever business representative who wants to claim they are losing money from it being their, either bar owner or other. The reach is incredible and whether or not the content has always been able to keep up with it, the content has been pretty good too. The lowest common denominator shit can go, that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about the ideas that have stuck around for so long that they are apart of us, not just culture, but any one of us as individuals.
Hegemony aside TV has been inserted into our lives because it has been such a pliable and versatile idea that it reshapes and reshapes until everything works out for TV in the end. What happens though is that because it works out for TV it will inevitably work out for us. Those who want the money will get the money and those who want to make us laugh will make us laugh. Maybe everything is different, but then again maybe not. There is a tangible reminder of the world resting soundlessly over most bars, but then again it was always out there anyway, so why try to sit in the dark and avoid it?
Book recommendation for this week: Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead.
(to avoid appearing as a pretentious dick I will discontinue book recommendations after this week)
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