BeautifulMag #107 Week 09-10 | The Age of Innocence
I remember while growing up the TV series and entertainment shows we watched. Looking back and comparing to what we are exposed to today it all seemed a bit naïve and innocent. Looking at the past few years, TV series such as The Shield, Dexter, Oz, Criminal Minds and Deadwood come to mind as our main source of entertainment. TV series that show it all. Blood, violence, sex, and foul talk. Nothing is sacred anymore, nothing hidden. It’s all there out in the open. And we, as innocent TV audience, take it in like it is the most normal thing in the world.
In fact, it is the most normal thing in the world. We are living in a time in which all is accessible. A decade ago one would carefully hide dead bodies and scenes of violence in the evening news, using polite words to describe massacres. Today our TV screens and our computer monitors are windows on the reality of what is happening just outside the protective walls from our homes. TV shows and news broadcastings have blurred into each other in an ongoing stream of cruelty and aggression, making reality TV less real every day. Is this wrong? No, not really. The world we are living in is a world of conflict and disorder. It is nothing new really. It has always been like this. The only thing that did change is that our media brings it closer to us. So what about our children? Should we not protect them from all this brutality? No, maybe not. Because what is the point in hiding them from the turbulence we call life. What we should do is educate them. Teach them right from wrong. Make them aware of the dangers that are lurking around the corners. Make them understand that the age of innocence is long gone. Only then we can hope to see a change. Only then we can start to look at violence being the solution with no end it really is. But until then we need to be realistic and accept that aggression is a part of our life and our experience world. There is only one reason why we should expose ourselves to the tools of violence. To get better and wiser. –BM-
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