this is a thought that keeps crossing my mind the last couple years. with the seemingly massive rise in violence and post apoplectic theams, that
appear in most of our entertainment, is this being done to condition us for the "world of tomorrow"?
we have always had violence in our entertainment but i seem to see a major shift towards the real nasty stuff, even in children's books. when i was
young, kids books were like Bruno and Boots (school fun), Hardy Boys (detective), and other simple stories and basically entertaining, nothing really
hard core. now we see harry potter (a hidden fight for freedom, against evil), Percy Jackson (hidden fight against evil), the Hunger Games series
(taking place in a post nuke war era, where BOTH sides are bad) ect. these are
books for young children? they want to use Harry Potter in
schools now, i would say good chances they will try with both these other series as well.
used to be didn't see stuff like that until in high
school, not grade 3 or 4, even then the stories didn't have the powerful punch that these, written for a younger age do.
then we have tv. parent groups were always out after cartoon series over violence. they were slapstick comedy, violent yes but basically benign. now
we see a mouse that is bent on taking over the world, mostly stopped due to the incompitance of his assistant. where once lower watched vampire
series like forever night were around if not very popular we now have many shows, that are very popular all over the place. can hardly find a channel
that doesn't run some vampire or occultic popular tv shows. not to mention how much more in depth about mythical beasts and the occult they seem to
be. we even had Jericho that took place after a supposed nuke terror attack (of course perpetrated by some within the government). look how hard they
tried to get THAT series off the air made the government look bad i guess especially with all the 9-11 was an inside job stuff going around.
we
had shows like startrek , a rather peaceful set of aliens, in comparison with newer shows like the star gate series.
even video games are getting stronger within story lines. we have the grand theft auto games, which teach how to commit crimes. also way more games
dealing with takeovers, disease causing things like zombisim, and more realistic first person shooters to teach how to be good at war. again much more
in depth about things then used to be. much more gore in them as well (monster bits everywhere
). games used to be violent but not near the
scale of violence they are today.
it used to be people were complaining about things like this desensitizing youth towards violence, (they still do). but from where i sit it looks like
we are being
trained to deal with this stuff. trained to go against our leaders (not a bad idea
from the looks of things today). it also
seems to be not just desensitizing us towards violence, but also desensitizing us to things like so called monsters, aliens and bad governments, as
well as seemingly training us in how to deal with them as well.
this seems to be more and more at the forefront then it used to be, kinda like "small steps" leading forward to even heavyer stuff. it just seems
that it's all more in your face, and becoming more commonplace then used to be. too much coincidence for me. what are other people thoughts about
it??