After the Littleton fiasco, our first lady, among others, attacked the
"The constant
exposure to violence on TV, in the movies, on video games, in music
there's much too much
evidence that children get desensitized... There's so much of it. We're
awash in it."
Sure it's easy to blame violent music and television for acts of violence.
Therein lies the problem:
blaming an easy target has always been an excellent way to avoid the
truth.
People seem to think society suddenly became violent in the last few years
or decades. This is
ludicrous. Man has always been destructive and savage and this has been
proven over and over
throughout history. We use to gather in town and stone criminals to death,
for God's sake. If anyone's
willing to volunteer for a stoning, s/he could give us an excellent view
of the savagery of man. Any
volunteers? I didn't think so. It's not exactly as gentle as the lethal
injection.
If television is inciting our children to violence, why haven't all those
people who grew up watching
Vietnam on TV gone ballistic? The blamers will say Vietnam awakened people
to the horrors of war,
not the glory of violence. While that might actually be true, it only
assists in proving that our
interpretation of violence is at issue and not its presentation. The
influence of violent images, in
games , movies, or tv, is dependant on the way we perceive it, not on the
method by which we receive
it.
The real way to prevent school violence is to find out why your kid's head
is so screwed up and fix it.
Top 11 People/Things to Blame for the Colorado School
Shootings
11) Anyone with a cellphone
10) Milosovich, for starting the ethnic cleansing trend of the late
90's
9) Pam Anderson, for destroying the silicon dream
8) Charlton Heston, for fighting for the right to bear arms
7) Despots whose birthdays fall on April 20
6) Christian Slater; he was in "Heathers" after all
5) London Fog, Pioneer of the black trenchcoat
4) Filter and that "Hey man, nice shot" song
3) Marilyn Manson, because it's rumored he collects
pentagrams
2) Barbra Streisand, for picking fights with Charlton Heston
1) How about the two boys with the guns?
