Originally posted by gabewave
Hey Gina,
Here is something to think about that has been weighing in on my mind for awhile. Look at the world we live in right now. Violence, deceit,
bloodshed, torture, greed, disease, fear, so many terrible things going on in our world right now. It reminds me of something with all this "Reality
TV", war coverage, and a "dictator" for a president. Also you can't go any where any more with out a television being on. This all leads me to this
conclusion, and don't laugh there is some reality to my thought process. Do you remember "The Running Man" with Arnold Schwartzenager? I really feel
that our society is headed in that direction. Our publics blood lust gets more and more everyday for real trauma (TLC's Life in The ER), real blood
(Fear Factor NBC), nudity (Real World MTV), violence (Celebrity Boxing FOX), back stabbing (Survivor CBS), every station right now is guilty of some
"reality TV" and the public gets hungrier and hungrier for more blood, more pain, more nudity, more violence, more back stabbing. It's scary, does
the media play a role in the desensitising of America and the world? I don't really know where I am going with all this, all I know is that our world
seems to play out more and more everyday like "The Running Man", next public executions will be televised.
Gina, you know that I believe that if you don't like what you are watching change the channel. You know that I believe it's the parents responsiblity
to raise their children, not the TV, the Schools, the Video Games, or anything of that nature, but I really feel something about to break in our
society and not for the children. I feel that all this is gonna be for the adults. We are going to get more extreme, television will have to get
more extreme to get viewers to get adverstising money so the rich stay richer and the public get sapped out of what they have always believed to be
correct.
I've said this before and I will say it again, through out history when a society reaches it's apex of technology and advancement, it implodes. This
has happened to every great civilation since man rose from up from the great apes.
I'm not one for doomesday prophecies, but I really believe we are on the edge of extinction. We are gonna wipe our selves out. SARS, AIDS, Weapons
of Mass Destruction, Nuclear Weapons, Jihad, North Korea, Artifical Inteligence (almost), Credit Cards, WAR, WAR, WAR! Gina for the first time in my
life I think that we need to take a look at our lives and change the way we think about the world around us. I don't know, I could be totally off
base here, I mean, I'm only a 30 year old college educated male, who doesn't believe in God or religion, who doesn't support my president or this war
for oil, and works for the exact vehicle for the mass desensitizing of America.
So take my words for what they are worth, I just think that some things are aligning them selves to make life very difficult for the future.
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