what do you accept as entertainment through news/media or whatever.

isn’t it the case that of many things one might approve or disapprove of (applying your moral faculties), that once it goes into your little brain for entertainment, that the details of the whatever become subordinate to the entertainment and that this is likely to corrupt the operation and application of the moral faculties.

no

poikilotherm said:

no

simplicity is wonderful eh?

poikilotherm said:

no

start with something like violence on TV, of which there’s no shortage of.

don’t those invested in the movie (producers, those that invest money in it etc), they have an interest in viewers (growing an audience too) having an appetite for more.

poikilotherm said:

no

I would say yes, and no. There it’s now completely covered.

transition said:

what do you accept as entertainment through news/media or whatever.

isn’t it the case that of many things one might approve or disapprove of (applying your moral faculties), that once it goes into your little brain for entertainment, that the details of the whatever become subordinate to the entertainment and that this is likely to corrupt the operation and application of the moral faculties.

I’ve noticed that with TV News.

In the TV film “Bowling for Columbine”, Michael Moore concludes after testing and discarding many other hypotheses, that the high gun-murder rate in the USA is mostly due to moral corruption by American News stories.

Just started watchin’ the news and it (the box that projects the sensibilities of intelligent man) got onto the latest violent exhibition over hollywood direction. I couldn’t watch it. A little more intrigue on my part and probably could’ve ignored and quietly internalized the messenger’s methods and contribution.

Transition, I am sorry I was do rude a couple of days ago. In was completely uncalled for.

Often when some gun violence occurs in the USA they look for a scapegoat besides lax laws allowing anyone to have access to multiple guns, its usually violent computer games, heavy metal music or violence in movies/tv. Perhaps these forms of enterainment actually reduce violence instead of encouraging it as it’s an outlet for violent tendencies.

>Perhaps these forms of enterainment actually reduce violence instead of encouraging it

agreed, on the whole it may have a net prophylactic benefit, more I was getting to ‘hardening effects’ and tolerance (desensitizing) of/toward less obvious (ideological) craziness made normal.