A Comment Rehashed
I put the following comment on someone else's blog, and re-reading it I found me strongly agreeing with myself. So I'm turning it into a post on my own blog. It's kinda weird and kinda cool to quote oneself -- I should remember that in conversation 'cause wouldn't that be fun?
"We're in a really wierd era. Catastrophe causes mediated titillation, but everyone's forgotten how to feel. And because of that, when it hits close to home, grief turns toxic.
That's the same thought that struck me after seeing Children of Men when someone commented it would make a good video game. This is the world we've made for ourselves, a culture of emotional opportunism. Now we're left wondering how to fix it..."
"We're in a really wierd era. Catastrophe causes mediated titillation, but everyone's forgotten how to feel. And because of that, when it hits close to home, grief turns toxic.
That's the same thought that struck me after seeing Children of Men when someone commented it would make a good video game. This is the world we've made for ourselves, a culture of emotional opportunism. Now we're left wondering how to fix it..."
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I was just talking to my students about that today. We have become so desensitized to death that we watch shows like CSI without even thinking beyond the entertainment factor. Yet, when death happens in life we don't know how to cope with it at all, because we've never asked ourselves the tough questions, we've never taken the time to analyze how we feel about the life and death issues in the world. We look at the entertainment, and totally miss the fact that we could learn. It's tragic that someone can come out of such a thought provoking movie as Children of Men and be thinking about how it could be turned into mindless entertainment! Please, let there be more to life...
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