War made to look good

While I found the beginning of this book interesting, it also reminded me a lot of The Persuaders. However, I found it amazing how many people watch tv. Read a book America! Anyways, I found myself most intrigued by the conversation on the James Bond movies. I really appreciated how Rutherford noticed that movies and especially the Bond movies make war into entertainment. Brutal violence is now how we, Americans are entertained. What is wrong with us? I am just as guilty, and I enjoy war movies, but in movies such as Bond, what is the actual point? Rutherford writes at the end of the chapter, "Again pop culture, a sometime laboratory of politics, had pointed the way to making war both a public and a private good, a moral product that might also serve as a source of entertainment" (21). While in the Bond movies James always fights for good and serves to help the innocent, I still question if we should be spending less time watching these frivolous movies and paying more attention to the real war going on Iraq.