An essay concerning the desensitizing of a Nation's citizens. |
In the Sadistic Nation, the people are drawn to a type of dark voyeurism into the pain and suffering of others. One lurid saga after another people are humiliated for the twisted amusement of the viewers. Like the Roman Empire its citizens desensitized by the blood in the sands of their colosseums. An Empire continually at war desensitizes it's citizen's to justify the mass genocide of it's enemies. It uses hollow and brutal stagecraft as devices employed to keep it's viewers numb to violence. Violence, war and death then become accepted forms of entertainment. We can start with the dark voyeurism of Reality TV. Where millions of viewers gleefully watch as people are humiliated, embarrassed or mocked. We find a queer fascination with the suffering of others. It turns away our attention from our own suffering. It naively puts us in a position of power, to watch the destruction of others. Those who are booted off of these shows are those who cling to the antiquated edifices of compassion and humility. While those who mock others and thrive for personal fame at any cost are cheered on. It is kill or be killed. Hollywood and it's violent films portray a false image of what violence really is. We no longer know the difference between illusion and truth. We watch violence in the theaters and when we see it on our streets, we are unaffected. Compassion and understanding are foolishly jeered as idealistic or unpatriotic. Our News Networks like reality TV is filled with the same ploys and stagecraft. It focuses on violence and death. Leading us to believe that the world is precisely that. When you have accepted this, then violence becomes an accepted form of action and when all other alternatives are swept away those who preserve life will have no choice but to partake in the very act they had vowed to dismiss. A Nation that lives by the sword will die by the sword. |