Hegemony Circus: Breaking Down Fox’s 24

This month, Fox’s greatest piece of propaganda, “24″ returns, and by all accounts is going to be a hurricane of yellow menace stereotypes. For this review I managed to sit through an entire season of nationalistic, racist and unintentionally hillarious episides. Where else can you watch a story unfold that actually blames a terrorist attack on Arabs, Chinese and Queers all at the same time? Guess without Russia to blame it on anymore, Hollywood has to go the extra mile in the scapegoating game. Anybody remember Red Dawn?

The television show “24,” is a fast paced roller coaster of a spy series scripted so that every screen minute is corresponds to an actual minute-and each episode represents an hour in a day. The show made its debut shortly after the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. As a melodrama, the show has held a mirror up to the mood of a nation at once deeply paranoid but also confident that it has the bad guys in the crosshairs.