More Hollywood Musings

I have also noticed that in TV/movies, when the hero/heroine is a government employee they always excel and work extremely hard. One of my favorite show is In Plain Sight, another story with hard-working, excellent, government employees. Has that been your experience with government?

Is the typical government worker hard-working? Excellent? Brave? These are common themes about government employees coming out of Hollywood. I have only worked in government jobs a couple of times - once as a school teacher, and once in the military. While there are many hard-working teachers, schools as an institution do not excel very often. The military tends to breed excellence, hard work, and bravery but that is a unique government institution.

Methinks that Hollywood is projecting their political philosophy; one in which the best and the bravest are career bureaucrats and/or lawyers into their plot lines without reflecting reality accurately.

Hollywood Pattern

I have noticed a pattern among television shows and movies - the government is always the hero. My favorite shows all fit this pattern: 24, CSI, Bones, Criminal Minds, etc... When it isn't a government employee the other common hero is lawyers. It almost never happens that the hero/heroine is someone from the private sector. Instead the villain is usually some non-government person.

In the rare instance when someone from the private sector is the hero, they almost always liberally engage in left-wing politics as part of the plot. This indoctrination shows what is in the minds of Hollywood directors, producers, and screenwriters. We can read their minds as we watch their shows.

What angers me the most is that I never noticed this before, nor have I ever heard anyone else comment upon it. I've seen the liberal bias in many things: newspapers, television news, most cable news, news magazines, universities, most schools, etc... but I never noticed it in the storylines. My bad.