No rational human could
deny that our world is a very sick and broken place. (Well, maybe
some dead
white guy could.) Wars rage; people are beaten and raped;
children die of preventable diseases; vast social and economic
injustices crush lives in every way, from the smallest
microaggressions to the
ongoing
famine no one is talking about in the Horn of Africa.
Yea, this brief tragic
life is a vale of tears.
And yet, in the midst
of all this horror and suffering, there arise, like shimmering soap
bubbles on the wind, tiny glimmers of hope and beauty. These small
moments of grace must be cherished like the fragile butterflies of
love and happiness they are – not trampled under the jackboots of
dream-crushing.
Community is
one of these delicate flowers of blessing putting forth tentative
blossoms of joy on the dung-heap that is this world. Last year I
proved, using the most stringent scientific method, that Community
is
the best sitcom on television,
and everything I said then holds true with cherries on top.
NBC,
I understand that you are a business. Profits are your priority, and
in comparison to the other three big networks you are struggling. But
please, spare a thought for the bigger picture. In these times of
unprecedented corporate greed, when the spiritual and artistic aspect
of human existence has been almost entirely subsumed by the
money-grubbing of the wealthiest among us, it is absolutely vital
that Art be fostered wherever it raises its precious head.
Will
future generations judge us on the profits we posted for this
quarter, or on the lasting legacy of sublime emotional truth we
produced?
Community is
a flickering candle-flame in the long dark night of the collective
human soul. For all our sakes, don't snuff it out.
Amen sistah. I'm devastated. I'd held off from watching Community until last year, in part because I try to avoid new TV for the simple reason that THIS HAPPENS! Hopefully there'll be a big enough social media outcry to show NBC some proof that Community has a stronger (maybe not bigger) audience than most of its shows and keeping them happy matters.
ReplyDeleteA shows brilliance is directly proportional to the odds it will be canceled.
ReplyDeleteIt is because there's a huge number of people that say. "I'm tired of thinking. I'll just watch TV. Derp." And that number outweighs the people who watch TV because it is a form of media and has potential artistic value.