Comments on: The ethics of the cock­sucker http://blog.voyou.org/2009/07/08/the-ethics-of-the-cocksucker/ Lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:01:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: shag carpet bomb http://blog.voyou.org/2009/07/08/the-ethics-of-the-cocksucker/comment-page-1/#comment-37039 shag carpet bomb Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:59:43 +0000 http://blog.voyou.org/?p=725#comment-37039 I haven't seen much of either program, nor have I kept on my readings in ethics, but the House storyline is the same forumulaic storyline peddled by u.s. t.v. dramas and films for decades, really. Our saviour is the individual, our enemy are social institutions. The bad guys are people who uphold the institution, the good guys are the ones who buck the system. The good guy can never have a family or even a wife or girlfriend: she must always be killed, usually because of something the bad guy did in order to perform his Lone Ranger routine. He's continually an outsider, never attached to family (because they will inevitably die from their association with him). He's never *in* society, but portrayed as outside of it. The way to save the system is to swoop in, breaking its rules in just the right way, not really caring about the people you're saving so much as dedicated to some overarching Principle (or, in the case of comic book heroes, driven by repetition). OK> so now I'll go read this and watch the shows, and comment more intellgiently. :) I haven’t seen much of either program, nor have I kept on my readings in ethics, but the House storyline is the same forumulaic storyline peddled by u.s. t.v. dramas and films for decades, really. Our saviour is the individual, our enemy are social institutions. The bad guys are people who uphold the institution, the good guys are the ones who buck the system. The good guy can never have a family or even a wife or girlfriend: she must always be killed, usually because of something the bad guy did in order to perform his Lone Ranger routine.

He’s continually an outsider, never attached to family (because they will inevitably die from their association with him). He’s never *in* society, but portrayed as outside of it. The way to save the system is to swoop in, breaking its rules in just the right way, not really caring about the people you’re saving so much as dedicated to some overarching Principle (or, in the case of comic book heroes, driven by repetition).

OK> so now I’ll go read this and watch the shows, and comment more intellgiently. :)

]]> By: Odette Amour http://blog.voyou.org/2009/07/08/the-ethics-of-the-cocksucker/comment-page-1/#comment-37001 Odette Amour Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:16:38 +0000 http://blog.voyou.org/?p=725#comment-37001 all the things in the serial are about the American health system! i just can w8 for the new series ... the last episode left us all wondering all the things in the serial are about the American health system! i just can w8 for the new series … the last episode left us all wondering

]]> By: voyou http://blog.voyou.org/2009/07/08/the-ethics-of-the-cocksucker/comment-page-1/#comment-36980 voyou Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:52:09 +0000 http://blog.voyou.org/?p=725#comment-36980 Yeah, Owen, the whole story wouldn't work if McNulty didn't also (pathologically) enjoy the police work in itself, but I thought it was interesting that, at least for a short while, the same actions he shows as a dedicated detective could also be motivated by petty malice. I guess the final season is perhaps a flip side of this, with the creation of a fake case, and thus a supposed justification within the logic of police work, for him to continue the investigation he enjoys. Good point, Jeff. It hadn't occoured to me that the infinite repetition of increasingly complicated failed cure attempts that <a href="http://www.cracked.com/blog/write-your-own-house-episode/" rel="nofollow">forms the standard plot of a house episode</a> mirrors the pathology of the American health system. Yeah, Owen, the whole story wouldn’t work if McNulty didn’t also (pathologically) enjoy the police work in itself, but I thought it was interesting that, at least for a short while, the same actions he shows as a dedicated detective could also be motivated by petty malice. I guess the final season is perhaps a flip side of this, with the creation of a fake case, and thus a supposed justification within the logic of police work, for him to continue the investigation he enjoys.

Good point, Jeff. It hadn’t occoured to me that the infinite repetition of increasingly complicated failed cure attempts that forms the standard plot of a house episode mirrors the pathology of the American health system.

]]> By: Jeffrey Rubard http://blog.voyou.org/2009/07/08/the-ethics-of-the-cocksucker/comment-page-1/#comment-36976 Jeffrey Rubard Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:37:20 +0000 http://blog.voyou.org/?p=725#comment-36976 1) Consider yourself shamed, and lucky not to be lamed. 2) *House*, *House*, *House* is a big pile of shit about how American medicine works: really, really, really well, like a "string theory of the body" that fixes problems it started in the first place through continual biological innovation. Like German private insurance, US health care is *nicht f 1) Consider yourself shamed, and lucky not to be lamed.
2) *House*, *House*, *House* is a big pile of shit about how American medicine works: really, really, really well, like a “string theory of the body” that fixes problems it started in the first place through continual biological innovation. Like German private insurance, US health care is *nicht f

]]> By: Owen http://blog.voyou.org/2009/07/08/the-ethics-of-the-cocksucker/comment-page-1/#comment-36944 Owen Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:22:37 +0000 http://blog.voyou.org/?p=725#comment-36944 Great post. Although a key difference is that the appalling Valcheck is horrified when he realises the investigation is about something other than fucking up Frank Subotka. After the process is set in motion McNulty is clearly interested in pursuing its logic, while Valcheck wants it stopped when it leaves the realm of pettiness... Great post. Although a key difference is that the appalling Valcheck is horrified when he realises the investigation is about something other than fucking up Frank Subotka. After the process is set in motion McNulty is clearly interested in pursuing its logic, while Valcheck wants it stopped when it leaves the realm of pettiness…

]]> By: Ian Mathers http://blog.voyou.org/2009/07/08/the-ethics-of-the-cocksucker/comment-page-1/#comment-36933 Ian Mathers Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:35:35 +0000 http://blog.voyou.org/?p=725#comment-36933 Ooh, I'd missed that (fantastic) piece on House, thanks for linking it. Great post here, too. Ooh, I’d missed that (fantastic) piece on House, thanks for linking it. Great post here, too.

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