<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">The TV series Breaking Bad was created 10 years ago, but I only recently was able to watch it on Netflix. As you know it is about the question how a good man turns bad. The story starts with a tragedy, a lung cancer diagnosis for the main character Walt(er) White. Life has not been kind to the underpaid and overqualified chemistry teacher who has a disabled son and a pregnant wife. The cancer diagnosis pushes him over the edge and after it he seems to driven by the question "if life has been so bad to me why should I be good?". The episodes that follow describe how he "breaks bad" and turns toward crime. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What do you think, did you like the TV series created in Albuquerque? Is the story accurate from a psychological perspective, i.e. can good people turn into bad ones if life refuses to be kind to them? In a way this story of a person who turns into a villain is the opposite of Joseph Campbell's classic story of a person who turns into a hero, isn't it?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></body></html>