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Today I got a fortune cookie. It said:
You deserve every respect
and will eventually get it.
I was going to write about how David Palmer has done more to pave the way for Obama’s campaign than a lot of people existing in reality, but it appears that NPR has already spoken on this topic. I think it really makes a lot of difference that people change their schemata through imaginative experiences, for example through engagin with fictions.
On the other hand, our expectations about fictions also change what we take away from it. In the TV series “Commander in Chief“, a female president is portrayed. She is less presidential in the fiction compared to David Palmer, though, since she ascended to presidency not through public election. More importantly, where as 24 was created long became Obama’s campaign for presidency became a hot topic, “Commander in Chief” was created around the time when there was talk about Hillary Clinton’s campaign for presidency. In fact, according to the trusted source of wikipedia, conservatives criticize the show as being a thinly-veiled attempt to pave the way for Clinton’s campaign. This expectation, naturally, makes us being more guarded about the way we might be influenced by the fiction. So we might inhibit our imagination–better yet, psychological participation–in the fiction. And I am afraid now any TV show about a female US president will be viewed against Clinton’s run, so it will no longer be possible for it to have the effect that 24 had. That would be sad, I think.
