Icky!!

I admit there's a lot of the Present I'm not fond of. One I reeeeaaaaalllly can't stand is one in Entertainment(esp.in books and movies). It's more than the "And then they all Died" Nhilist crap. It's the "Everything's Shit and Everyone's an Arse" BS. I recently read a book that had been recommended to me, 'Down the Road' by Ibarra. By the end of the 1st paragraph you find little to like about the main character. What can you say about a book where the NICEST character kills a cop simply to get home earlier? By the end, it was actually a pleasant surprise that the main cahracter's family blows his head off with a shotgun blast when he finally gets home.
And this is only the most recent example. Perhaps this is a way folks today "deal" by making it easy not to care about the characters in their Entertainment so it is easier not to care about the people in their lives. And if so, that's SAD.
Cheers,
Pat