Everything that everyone says about the suburbs being the best place for Americans isn’t all that true. Just like everything else in life, there are pros and cons to many different things. Adam Conover goes into research of many different things that make the suburbs so “safe”. He goes into the history of lawns, housing situations, schools, and etc. He also gives out facts and other methods of “teaching”. Instead of using statistics to persuade audiences, he actually makes the audience critically think and piece things altogether. He’s connecting back to history and how it not only affected people back in time but also how it affects us here today in the present.
This type of research actually connects back to the article “We Are All Confident Idiots”, in my opinion. Mentioned in the previous paragraph, just about everyone believes that the suburbs are completely safe because compared to the city there isn’t much crime committed in the suburbs. And even though that may be correct there are still other things that contribute to that myth. This video alone has shed light on the problems that many people look over.
The humor in this episode is very light and not very pushed. Which actually does a lot better rather than knowing it’s supposed to be comedic. But, with the comedy in the video, it connects to us better rather than boring statistics and other visuals that would not grab the audiences’ attention.
From what I start to realize from the episode is that it’s good to see a topic from a different set of eyes. To look at things that are in the shadows and highlight them. Because it’s things that we lack to show are the things that people most see. The whole episode is Conover’s evidence. He shows us everything that is not in light on problems that people decide to overlook because “it’s just how things are here.”
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