A Unique and Fascinating Scene

While watching Six Feet Under, season 2 episode 10, I was shocked by one particular scene. Morally, the show has been incredibly lacking, though I do genuinely enjoy the plot, its development and characters, and much more. Also, due to the incredibly dysfunctional characters, the show has helped me immensely to step outside of an episode in my own life (itself involving a lunatic pseudo mother-in-law and her extremely dysfunctional family), allowing me the space to objectively reevaluate the damage and pain caused by these individuals who, now, I can pity fully.

The scene itself, however, dealt with Nathan Fisher, one of the primary characters and arguably the most important figure. Nathan is, similar to all the characters on the show, mostly clueless about the nature of morality. When confronted by a past relation, Lisa, Nathan is shocked to learn that he had impregnated her several months before meeting her at random in a public market. Lisa's words included a clear plan to keep the child, with or without Nathan's interest, and she hinted at having formerly terminated a child at his request. Later, Nathan dreams that he is working alone at night and has a horrific vision in which a small child (probably 8 or 9) approaches him from behind. He dialogues with the child and discovers that the child is the one that he had pressed Lisa to kill years before. Then another two children make their way toward him, and then a late-teen girl. Moving into the next room, Nathan is confronted with dozens of children running around and playing in the foyer. He is dramatically influenced by this illustration of what his selfish manners in the past have produced.

For such an immoral show, I was highly impressed at the actual consideration of the weaker and unjustly persecuted. Morally primitive people tend to think only of themselves and their feelings, limited by their subjective world, a byproduct of their illogical and deceptive ideology. Rather than consider a wide range of perspectives, usually convenience and "quality" are heralded as the only pillars of decision. People then become worthless in and of themselves, and all that matters is the self and that which is determined valuable to that self. As Bob Dylan famously remarked "Everything is broken".