Mindhunter
Mindhunter
❝How can we get ahead of crazy if we don't know how crazy thinks?❞
There is a new series on Netflix and its gripping story, beautifully set in the late 1970s, shows how FBI crime fighters slowly learn to think like the serial killers they must face.
I was beginning to wonder about how the writers of this show were coming up with their storyline. Simple, they had some strong reality to back it up in the form of a non-fiction eponymic book.
https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Hunter-Inside-Elite-Serial/dp/0671528904
If you're interested in sociology and behavioral science, then this was tailored for you, and me. I found it especially enjoyable because the illusion of being educated is stronger that the guilty pleasure, a rare thing.
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8 comments:
I watched season one within two nights and can't wait for the next season. In my opinion this is a really great and gripping show. Way beyond all these CSI shows. And Cameron Britton as Edmund Kemper ... my, that's acting at it's best.
Marc Schnau The 1.96 m is pretty effective. I wonder what goes through the mind of an actor knowing the part they will need playing. I agree with you, he is doing a superb job.
good point :)
Bill Haslacher Back in the days we both have known when all phones were still wired and the characters do not seem to miss anything.
Zaid El-Hoiydi Yeh, back when Colombo used to start wandering away but stopped to ask the key question with a casual, "Oh, and one more thing?" Yes, I'm old enough to remember when all the phones were black and had a rotary dial. And things moved at the speed of a glacier. It took quite a while to get to the "push button" wired phone. It was a wonderful thing that they opened up the telephone for competition! For too long, you could only buy your wired phone from the phone company and they had Zero reasons to change. Speaking of change ... I think changes a coming so fast that we are living in a period that is similar to the Industrial Revolution. I have learned the hard way, that it is often best to "pull back" and study the landscape. As I study things, I see that the world is "in a big "rugby scrum." And that's because of the changes a coming too fast. But, heck, as the saying goes ... "you can't slow down progress." Enough of my mumbling about how GE fumbled its future, I'm going back to my city by the bay ... I'm gonna lose my heart in a little boozy fantasy reading world containing sharp dressing dames, et al. Ahhh, I heart Raymond Chandler :) Ha! :)
Very good point Bill Haslacher. Today I've heard in a fine quote in a german language podcast "The technology is developing rapidly, while mankind needs decades to figure out the societal impacts."
Yes, we are in the midst of technological change and your German podcast is correct that has not figured out how to cope with it. Another period of change was the Civil War period. I'm not that much into interpreting poetry but ... I think he's saying we have no choice but to accept the changes ... very powerful language, this ...
And while the prophets shudder or adore
Before the flame, hoping it will give ear,
If you at last must have a word to say,
Say neither, in their way,
“It is deadly magic and accursed,”
Nor “It is blest,” but only “it is here.”
Stephen Vincent Benét (from John Brown's Body)
Is applied behavioral science a technology? It certainly has tremendously developed over the last few decades but somehow didn't seem to help much in preventing societal illnesses. Trump voters made sure to remind us of that.
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