It's Day 11 in Kid Nation's Bonanza City and we can see many similarities between Kid Nation, and our local governments. Of course the action is slow so the editors are going to have to ramp up the drama a notch (We propose a fire fee to get things going). Perhaps next week, but more about that later.
The Town Council has been thoroughly programmed that they must report, robot-like, to the Council chamber to review the weekly journal (staff recommendations in the back-up) and do what it says. This week, the journal tells them that the town needs to get religion. The council, as the journal and editors' puppets, announce at a town meeting that the town will start having a universal religious service, commenting "The town usually doesn't like what the journal has to say" and "We make the decisions whether they like it or not."
The scene cuts to four members of the town council ringing the town bell, calling all of the townsfolk to their community religious service, and not one member of the town responds to the call. The council walks away, dejected that their leadership titles were not enough to get the townspeople to do their bidding, but oddly enough, they don't even hold the service among themselves, even though they felt it was such a good idea. Later, one of the townspeople, through invitation and personal relationships, creates her own community religious service which is well attended by the townsfolk.
Later, after the weekly team competition shakes up the work assignments, the townsfolk choose a library of religious books over a mini-golf course for the center of town. The town council, tired of being vilified for their self perceived magnanimous decisions, puts the selection up to a town vote.
We discover that the town council member known last week to quote "deal with it," whose team was demoted this week from the upper class to the cooking crew, is back to shirking her duties. She is found doing shots in the town saloon and ignoring criticism. At the weekly town meeting, she is held up for the most criticism among the townsfolk, who continue to grow more dissatisfied with the leadership of the council as a whole. She responds with threats for worse job assignments, but in the world of Kid Nation, there are apparently no impeachment procedures, and the council doesn't really hold any power over the individual members of the town.
In the previews for next week, the editors tease us with the revelation that there will be elections in the town, and we will see how the townsfolk deal with campaigns...it appears that many campaign posters will be torn down and shredded in the street. By the sound of things to comes, the Kid Nation government may have discovered the usefulness of Code Enforcement. Stay tuned.
The Town Council has been thoroughly programmed that they must report, robot-like, to the Council chamber to review the weekly journal (staff recommendations in the back-up) and do what it says. This week, the journal tells them that the town needs to get religion. The council, as the journal and editors' puppets, announce at a town meeting that the town will start having a universal religious service, commenting "The town usually doesn't like what the journal has to say" and "We make the decisions whether they like it or not."
The scene cuts to four members of the town council ringing the town bell, calling all of the townsfolk to their community religious service, and not one member of the town responds to the call. The council walks away, dejected that their leadership titles were not enough to get the townspeople to do their bidding, but oddly enough, they don't even hold the service among themselves, even though they felt it was such a good idea. Later, one of the townspeople, through invitation and personal relationships, creates her own community religious service which is well attended by the townsfolk.
Later, after the weekly team competition shakes up the work assignments, the townsfolk choose a library of religious books over a mini-golf course for the center of town. The town council, tired of being vilified for their self perceived magnanimous decisions, puts the selection up to a town vote.
We discover that the town council member known last week to quote "deal with it," whose team was demoted this week from the upper class to the cooking crew, is back to shirking her duties. She is found doing shots in the town saloon and ignoring criticism. At the weekly town meeting, she is held up for the most criticism among the townsfolk, who continue to grow more dissatisfied with the leadership of the council as a whole. She responds with threats for worse job assignments, but in the world of Kid Nation, there are apparently no impeachment procedures, and the council doesn't really hold any power over the individual members of the town.
In the previews for next week, the editors tease us with the revelation that there will be elections in the town, and we will see how the townsfolk deal with campaigns...it appears that many campaign posters will be torn down and shredded in the street. By the sound of things to comes, the Kid Nation government may have discovered the usefulness of Code Enforcement. Stay tuned.
4 comments:
Self perceived magnanimous decisions?? That sounds like Gemskie!
A fountain would have won out over the religious books.
The sad part is that I hate this show. It is one of the dumbest shows I have seen on television in a long time, but now I am watching it to see how it matches up with our own elected officials. It is almost sad how close the kids are to adult government.
Council person in the town saloon? Hmmm.... Sounds like some of them that we have around here.
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