Friday, August 31, 2012

Violent Entertainment


"We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives." - Tyler Durden


My thoughts this morning were about :

How possibly in the days of old, violence and gore on the battlefield was common place, and mere activities like obtaining food (the hunt) were in themselves fraught with danger. Even if you had a farm, you still had to slaughter and prepare the chicken / pig / sheep for consumption.
So when the average peasant got home, his need of rest & relaxation possibly aspired to ideals more lofty, such as poetry, music, art & sculpture.

Today however, we lead an emasculated existence and operate within our commercial & societal frameworks with greater decorum and civility, which possibly leads to a pronounced need to vent. And so we have TV programmes and films that give us the blood and aggression that we  -- perhaps secretly crave ? 

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