Violence - "What have we turned into?"
That was a quote from a character uttered on tonight's edition of Criminal Minds, a show I have followed only recently. I love the drama, acting and well thought out scripts. The characters try to fake a cold facade of professional attitude toward the cascade of blood and guts, but, inside it tears them up.
The adrenaline and the humanity's call for help keeps them magnetized to the job, the science and the rarely the gunfire.
The violence, inside of three hours of prime time television, ads run for cartoon promos for new "games" for kids to purchase and play showing character armies and battle plans on how to "destroy" the opposing armies as violently as possible. Rambo would be jealous.
Speaking of which, Rambo is back, slowed by the wheels of age, now to decrepit to do all that bloodletting by hisownself, so he's got 9 other badasses shooting guns along side of him including the former Govenator of California, now out of work.
Understand me, I have NO argument against guns, just violence aimed at teenagers in movie theatres and CD's and on-line. Do the name Klebold rand Littleton ring a familiar note?
To whit, a couple of decades ago, the Legion of Decency and the Organization of What's Holier than Thou decried that there was too much SEX in our culture (i.e. movies, TV, tedium ad naseum), so after much pre$$ure folks turned their attention to movie screen mayhem, murder, blood and violence.
Results? More violence against women, bank robberies in Los Angeles County (30% of the total in America) and God knows the increase in rapes (how many are NOT reported?)
Admittedly all the above are my opinions, I could be wrong, but then again, that's what a blog is for, I drop my opinions around, like rose petals, here and there. Some people? Who knows, It might actually get them to thinking.
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The adrenaline and the humanity's call for help keeps them magnetized to the job, the science and the rarely the gunfire.
The violence, inside of three hours of prime time television, ads run for cartoon promos for new "games" for kids to purchase and play showing character armies and battle plans on how to "destroy" the opposing armies as violently as possible. Rambo would be jealous.
Speaking of which, Rambo is back, slowed by the wheels of age, now to decrepit to do all that bloodletting by hisownself, so he's got 9 other badasses shooting guns along side of him including the former Govenator of California, now out of work.
Understand me, I have NO argument against guns, just violence aimed at teenagers in movie theatres and CD's and on-line. Do the name Klebold rand Littleton ring a familiar note?
To whit, a couple of decades ago, the Legion of Decency and the Organization of What's Holier than Thou decried that there was too much SEX in our culture (i.e. movies, TV, tedium ad naseum), so after much pre$$ure folks turned their attention to movie screen mayhem, murder, blood and violence.
Results? More violence against women, bank robberies in Los Angeles County (30% of the total in America) and God knows the increase in rapes (how many are NOT reported?)
Admittedly all the above are my opinions, I could be wrong, but then again, that's what a blog is for, I drop my opinions around, like rose petals, here and there. Some people? Who knows, It might actually get them to thinking.
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