Netflix's Inside Job and Dominance Hierarchies

 Netflix's new show Inside Job irks me the wrong way. In the show, the pretense is that all conspiracies are true and there is a big organization that controls the world from the shadows. And who's at the top of that hierarchy? None other than a bunch of idiot sitcom clichés. There's the military guy who openly uses drones to spy on his ex wife. There's a guy who is obviously high on the job and doesn't care. It's supposed to be funny, but I just find it sad. At these levels of governance every individual, in my opinion, must be of the utmost solidity and trustworthiness. It's not possible to run a government without being serious about it. And the fact that these sitcom cliches are purportedly controlling the world just makes me feel as if the creator of the show doesn't know what real responsibility is like. I mean, even if you work at McDonalds, if you come to work high on Molly? You're out! If you screw up too many orders? You're out! Sitcoms like to present the office environment as one full of gags and people being idiots. Take The Office, for example. I haven't watched it but I know enough about it to make an educated guess as to what most of it contains. But I am fully of the belief that their antics wouldn't be tolerated in any but the most Dilbert-esque environments. Say, the middle management circles of an established old company in the 1990s. 

Another show that is guilty of this is the show Rick and Morty. In this, the president is an idiot who, at one point, gets replaced with a literal turkey--and no one seems to notice!

Please take governing bodies seriously in fiction. Don't reduce them to a sitcom stereotype. It takes a serious amount of conscientiousness and hard work to stay afloat at the top of dominance hierarchies. While it may be funny to poke fun at the people on top, just remember that they're there because they take the responsibility. I mean, Jordan Peterson puts up the example of running a billion dollar business. Do you think a guy who gets drunk at work and comes into the office high, or uses assets to pull some stupid prank will manage to keep track of everything that is needed to run a billion dollar corporation? I mean, if you say the wrong word in those kinds of positions, you're liable to lose millions of dollars! How can a sitcom stereotype even think about being in this position?

And as such, I dropped Inside Job after they introduced the guys who were supposed to be running the government. It's silly. I know they just wanted to joke about the supposed ineptitude of the government, but they really undermined the stakes they were presenting.