Friday, March 21, 2008

Is it Good to be Desensitized?

This is another "something" that I didn't come up with all that recently. I wrote this in December of last year. Again, it's not edited at all.

It's interesting and at least a little bit disturbing to see how desensitized so many people of our generation have become. If a movie isn't intense, sensual, or violent, it's not really worth watching. If a TV show isn't raw reality or a murder mystery, you can forget it. My brother was excited about watching an old English mystery show until we started it and discovered that the mystery to be solved was a case of arson - a car lit on fire. He was clearly disappointed about this, muttering things about how lame it was, not even a murder, and that Miss Marple episodes were better than that. Miss Marple is a very elderly "detective" who assists the police or Scotland Yard in solving mysteries, generally murders. But that's beside the point. Is this the level we've sunk to? Are we to the point where we are only entertained by brutal staged deaths and gritty reality shows? Even my cousin, who has watched things like 300, Gladiator, and Troy without batting an eye, remarked recently that the number of murder shows on TV was surprising, and even more so was the fact that viewers seem to like watching other people die. I can only agree with that. What's happened to us?

2 comments:

Colin said...

**Viewers seem to like watching other people die.**

Yeah, that's a scary thing. What scares me most, though, is when I see it in myself.

The LORD tests the righteous,but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.--Psalm 11:5

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