Pop Torture | The Nation

Pop culture does more than validate the claim that torture could help
foil bombs seconds before detonation. In shows like 24, where
scenes of sensory deprivation are mixed with family melodrama, torture
is so routine that it seems one more plot device to create intimacy in
characters. The reality is that torture isolates its victims from any
sense of intimacy.

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