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There is currently a atnrarive going on in U.S. politics in which the liberal commentators and media personalities claim that the conservative outlets are airing atnrarives which aren’t true. Simply by airing them, this thinking goes, they are reinforcing the false story in the minds of people and creating more viewers who believe the lie. Examples of this are Fox news pundits labeling Obama a socialist, and a Kenyan. Now without delving into the truth of these claims, I do find an analogy to the clean house thing.I don’t think that these shows are causing many people to consciously question the perfection of the homes on TV. I’ve certainly never though about cords and lampshades and where they find the 20 hours a day to clean the place. The subconscious implications seem to be less clear cut though. If we watch a show does it provide even a tiny blow to our self esteem? I don’t know. I know that I certainly feel like a slob sometimes when I see the portrayal of other living spaces on TV. Is this negative reinforcement, and, if it is, is it harmful?Personally I think that the analogy to body type self esteem is apt for some people. From a story prospective though, it’s interesting to wonder what the cluttered set would take away. Would we be less involved in the story if it were presented on a gritty and cluttered background? How many people would be caught up in the background enough that it detracted from the story? Do we want to see idealized people and sets that reinforce our cultural ideas about life and society in such a way as to make the story more understandable? Does a clean view of the story make it more enjoyable to us opposed against the dirty view reminding us of doing the laundry and dusting the mantle? All a fine can of worms to think ourselves out of.The show I’ve been watching lately, Numb3rs, shows a man who is arguably a savant doing all kinds of crazy math to solve crimes. The thing that they clean up to make the story enjoyable is all the time that goes into setting these things up. They love showing all the chalkboards full of arcane equations, but sometimes they talk about entering thousands of data points to solve a crime in an hour or two of time in the story. That is completely unrealistic. Would I be happier with an unsolved crime while the protagonist spends 9 hours grinding a few thousand points of data into his computer? Of course not.I can see positives and negatives from the sets for shows being clean and idealized. From the point of telling the story, I think that showing a clean frame is helpful. When I think that some people may be getting higher and higher expectations about what the clean set means for their own lives, and don’t realize that we all have to live with some clutter, then I think that damage can be done.