Random, incoherent thoughts. Late-night TV in the United States is hella different from late-night TV in Korea. I usually have a Blockbuster DVD on if it's late, but for some reason I decided to just turn on whatever was on. I would prefer to watch Friends, but the local Fox affiliate has been showing COPS. And it seems grittier than in the past. They still have the car chases, but the crash scenes and the crime scenes are more gruesome than before: actual dead bodies of innocent victims shown (and the uncomfortable smiles of some of the cops who are not being insensitive but just don't know how to deal with the day-to-day carnage).
This show has been on since forever. I guess the other notable thing to me tonight (notable enough to prompt an impromptu blog post) was that the on-going meth epidemic has meant that a much lighter cast of characters appears among the "innocent until proven guilty in a court of law."
Korea was in fact an exporter (along with Taiwan and Japan) of meth to places like Hawaii. But Americans have taken to the free-trade challenge and have begun manufacturing this substance themselves. And blowing up buildings, causing deadly fires, etc., etc. (back in about 2004, the granddaughter of our neighbor and her boyfriend set up a meth lab in the garage of the grandmother's upper middle-class Orange County home, a hazard to my parents and our dear neighbor).
Anyway, back to the issue of meth in America, I found these ads from the Montana Meth Project to be very powerful, if they can effectively be directed at kids who have not yet taken the drug. That is the message there and at NotEvenOnce.com: (unlike other drugs perhaps) even once with meth is enough to send you down a very bad road.
This show has been on since forever. I guess the other notable thing to me tonight (notable enough to prompt an impromptu blog post) was that the on-going meth epidemic has meant that a much lighter cast of characters appears among the "innocent until proven guilty in a court of law." Blonde haired lily-white criminal suspects all over the place.
This meth epidemic, I fear, is going to end very, very badly.
To make this Korea-related, it is true that Korea's drug problem—apparently far smaller than that of the United States—has long been centered around meth, which is called hiroppong [히로뽕], after the Japanese pronunciation of the German word (Philophon?) on which it was based.
Korea was in fact an exporter (along with Taiwan and Japan) of meth to places like Hawaii. But Americans have taken to the free-trade challenge and have begun manufacturing this substance themselves. And blowing up buildings, causing deadly fires, etc., etc. (back in about 2004, the granddaughter of our neighbor and her boyfriend set up a meth lab in the garage of the grandmother's upper middle-class Orange County home, a hazard to my parents and our dear neighbor).
Anyway, back to the issue of meth in America, I found these ads from the Montana Meth Project to be very powerful, if they can effectively be directed at kids who have not yet taken the drug. That is the message there and at NotEvenOnce.com: (unlike other drugs perhaps) even once with meth is enough to send you down a very bad road. [photos are still shots from the Quicktime ads at the Montana Meth Project. Unfortunately they don't yet offer a way to embed the ads, but I have contacted them about that.]
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