- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
censorship and blame things like this make me think of bill hicks. He dealt with the music and -blam!- side of it, but I think it fits - "what came first, the hard on, or the porno?" , you could make an argument "what came first, cop killers or gta(or halo)?" people killed before video games, they killed after video games came. If anything is responsible, its the worship/babysitting function that tv now plays. parents leave small children in front of a tv unsupervised every day. I'm willing to tolerate parental advisory labels, for the sake of the children of deadbeats, though it does get ridiculous sometimes.(i remember being carded for a reel big fish cd (not proud, i was young)at best buy when i was like 17 or 18 and getting turned down cause i didnt have id.) The fundamental problem is that we live in a society of scapegoats, where noone assumes responsibility for their own actions. You ate mcdonalds every day for 3 years and gained 200 pounds? their fault. You started smoking after the sg warnings and proof of cancer? their fault. Your child listened to judas priest and killed himself? blame the band. the list goes on. Even I notice i do it ocassionally. There will always be people like that around as long as they have enough naive lazy people going along with them. There's a good article on movie violence by oliver stone, after natural born killers came out, a couple kids killed some people and blamed, guess what, the movie, and john grisham basically called for censorship of movies, and the article was stones response. The best thing was stone wrote " the first amendment protects all speech, even grishams brainless works of fiction." But to summarize the essay, stone basically reiterates my point, that violence will happen regardless of media, art imitates life, and so on.