Sunday, July 25, 2010
Response to Bowling for Columbine
There is so much controversy about violence and weapon control. Why do people insist on blaming things like movies and music? Every country has violence in media and more than half of them have less shootings and murders then America. If a child is able to get to any kind of weapon, a gun or a knife, then its an adults problem. Also, if the child knows how to use the gun properly then we wouldn't have so many issues. In the movie I remember the director saying that the Columbine shooting was blamed on Marilyn Manson. Manson did make a good point during his interview, Why wasn't the President blamed? While he sits around and starts a war and thinks he can bomb everyone, children are getting the wrong impression. Then everyone blames television and games. The movie even showed that Japan, the maker of most violent movies and games, has less than three times the murder rate of America. Is it culture? I don't personally think so. In my opinion, I think it is the Adrenaline and power rush. People feel empowered when they can do whatever they want, even though it is illegal. In the movie, Michael Moore (director) compares America with Canada. Canada isn't far away from America and even so, they aren't as violent. The news that they watch in Canada is educational and more focused on health care reforms and benefits rather than ours in America which shows the most brutal attacks. Maybe it is in our culture, maybe it isn't. Honestly, I don't think we will ever know what causes anyone to pick up a gun and shoot someone in the face with it.
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i understand your point completly Adreanna. you know whats never thought of? the movies and music created everyday is expressed by the life experiences humans go thru so why on earth would people continue to blame forms of art as causes of violence. i always thought growing up that it was so funny that rap music was always blamed for violent behavior but when i was growing up all hip-hop music was party music..lol..nothing like a great happy party to make you want to kill somebody...WOW.
Yes your right, I do not think we will ever now what makes a person act in violent way other than the normal thinking that we all know people are all different and this is a possible action that one might take.
I do agree that the media is constantly showing the violence which in some ways makes us immune to the shock of it. If you tried to control what the media or TV stations aired I think it would be just as much of a fight as gun control.
The media issues raised are fascinating. It's clear that what people spend their time and money on, such as certain types of news stories, or buying into thousands of fears bombarding people constantly, will just perpetuate this type of "journalism." Many wise people have stated their disgust with the news for a long time. Henry David Thoreau comes to mind:
"When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor; and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is, that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not. In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office."
And this:
"Read not the Times. Read the Eternities. Conventionalities are at length as bad as impurities. Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are in a sense effaced each morning, or rather rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven."
Here's a good one:
“I often wonder what future historians will say about us. One sentence will suffice to describe modern man: he fornicated and he read newspapers.”
Albert Camus, French novelist, dramatist, philosopher, 1956
A pretty funny one:
"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."
Elbert Hubbard
One by the author of 1984:
"While the journalist exists merely as the publicity agent of big business, a large circulation, got by fair means or foul, is a newspaper's one and only aim."
-Orwell, George pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair
In G.K.'s Weekly, 29 Dec.
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