<story><title>Why We&apos;re Teaching &apos;The Wire&apos; at Harvard</title><url>http://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/news/commentary/teaching-the-wire-at-harvard</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elptacek</author><text>He left off a couple of important points. Because The Wire is drama, you get to know the characters as people. There is a huge difference between looking at &quot;urban, ethnic and impoverished&quot; on paper and getting to know and appreciate the characters as individuals.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#60;insert spoiler alert here&amp;#62;&lt;p&gt;Season 4 follows the youngest generation and ends by showing you how each character steps into the place vacated by a character from the older generation. This was the most painful season for me to watch, seeing young people being trapped and molded into another wave of failure. This cycle is a topic dear to my heart, and one I believe would not require mountains to break. The cycle perpetuates because we&apos;re all afraid to touch it... myself included. The subset of our society that is undereducated and economically, socially and emotionally depressed is a component of the whole. And if we own the whole, we own all of the problems, including those of the subset.&lt;p&gt;This is a course I would love to take, if only because I have some very, very strong opinions on the phenomenon. But I&apos;ll spare HN the details.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why We&apos;re Teaching &apos;The Wire&apos; at Harvard</title><url>http://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/news/commentary/teaching-the-wire-at-harvard</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sfs</author><text>Obligatory: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/03/09/85-the-wire/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/03/09/85-the-wire/&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>