http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-ca-st-1213-year-end-lloyd-essay-20151213-column.html

So says Robert Lloyd, who notes that we may not live in a post-racial world, but TV has become noticeably diverse over the past year. He adds: “Something is happening, a subtle rearrangement of the medium's DNA that better represents both who we are now, collectively and variously, and where we are hopefully headed. The popular arts have always been a harbinger and an agent of change, positing the world that the world grows into.”

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-ca-st-1213-year-end-lloyd-essay-20151213-column.html

So says Robert Lloyd, who notes that we may not live in a post-racial world, but TV has become noticeably diverse over the past year. He adds: “Something is happening, a subtle rearrangement of the medium's DNA that better represents both who we are now, collectively and variously, and where we are hopefully headed. The popular arts have always been a harbinger and an agent of change, positing the world that the world grows into.”
I'm not sure the West does know where it's going, bruised by its embroilment in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan and beaten hands down by the emerging supergiant of China, whose Western counterparts rightly recoil at its insane working hours and lack of welfare and representative democracy. I can't remember the last comedy show I watched, preferring the escapism of the 1970s cops shows, where at least one knew who the good and bad sides were, unlike today when we await the next Ferguson riots with trepidation, and with a token black man in the White House, yet the gap between rich and poor has never been wider for a hundred years and people have given up hope, clinging to mavericks like Donald Trump, who might well yet pull a surprise.