Raw Morality Tale for Era with Broken Moral Compasses: Binge-Watching "The Shield" (2002 - 2008)

Traditional social mores have gone poof. That's one reason there isn't more of a grassroots push for severe penalties for shoplifting. So many of us are reeling. We don't really know how to assess our own and others' values and actual behavior.

Therefore, it could be a good investment of time to binge-watch the seven-season television series "The Shield" (2002 - 2008) which is on Hulu. In it the main character street savvy hard-charging Vic Mackey has an amazing track record for solving tough cases and for arrests in an urban area which has seen better days. However, those ends, it is played out, don't justify the means. Mackey ignore procedures, uses excessive force, conducts reckless shoots, and dips often into the cookie jar. Add onto that murdering a fellow detective who is investigating him on stealth basis. 

So many cards in the Tarot message that meme of the ends not justifying the means. They range from Justice to The Seven of Wands.

SPOILER ALERT

But it is the Tower card which sums up how Mackey winds up. It symbolizes collapse. 

All of his team of specialized detectives are dead, with the exception of himself and one who will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. Mackey lands immunity. But it's to a desk job writing reports in a cube in a federal government agency. 

That contract is only for three years. After that he will be lucky, given his horrific reputation, if he can get a security-guard position in retail. But the biggest loss is that of his family. They are put in Witness Protection. He will never be able to connect with them again. He didn't even get to say good-bye to his wife and three children. 

All that bravado and all that charm (which certainly attracted the ladies) deflate in the final scene of the series. It is the end of the workday. The lights go out in the office. Mackey looks wistfully out the window at a cop car speeding to a whatever. He removes the gun he is not allowed to wear on him during the day from the safe. He shoves it in the back of the trousers from the suit he has to put on every boring morning. Then he puts on the jacket to the suit. There is no more a Vic Mackey. The ends he achieved ended him.

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