It is not only the violence that is the problem. It is also the extensive
programming the media does. It could possibly be that I am acutely aware of
it because of my business. And I agree with you on the dependence. And that
is the true problem.
Jim
Master Magician & Paranormalist
-----Original Message-----
>I don't question that they follow behavior on TV or that they watch too
Jim Callahan magicjim@islc.net
Creator of Applied Thought Technologies
http://wwwwwwwww.magicjim.net
From: Sodom <sodom@ma.ultranet.com>
To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
Date: Sunday, June 20, 1999 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: virus: Meme Update #29: Copycat Shootings
much and
>do too little - about that you get no argument from me. I simply don't
think
>that we are "saturated" with the negative images. I don't think most the
images
>are negative - nor disturbing, or bad. Just to be sure I felt good about
that
>statement, I went directly my satellite tv and ran through the channels -
and
>sure enough, almost no violent shows at all, those that were were mostly
movies.
>Lots of baseball and meaningless drivel, but little violence. This was at
4:00,
>I looked again at 8:00 and it was mostly the same, a few more drama shows,
but
>that's about it. I simply don't think the problem is in the content - but
the
>dependence.
>
>Bill Roh
>
>Jim wrote:
>
>> It is not the desires that are undesirable it is models that are harmful
>> that it supplies. For example the troubled youth that acts out in this
way
>> would not have ever reacted this way if the model for this behavior had
not
>> been presented. The unfortunate part of the situation is that further
copy
>> cat behavior could have been squelched.
>>
>> Also television is reality for a great part of our country. They sit in
>> front of it slack jawed eating crud and sucking down soda their children
are
>> right with them and their brains become receivers acutely tuned to the
>> compliance techniques used by the TV marketers. I just returned home from
>> Orlando. I was working but took a few days and went to Universal and
Epcot.
>> It is absolutely obscene the physical shape our children are in. They
have
>> the bodies of people in their late twenties to early mid thirties. And
they
>> can tell you what is on every day on every major broadcasting station. If
>> you are looking for a undesirable desires possibly the desire to
incessantly
>> watch is it.
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Jim
>>
>> Master Magician & Paranormalist
>> Jim Callahan magicjim@islc.net
>> Creator of Applied Thought Technologies
>> http://www.magicjim.net
>>
>> >From Bill,
>>
>> >Once again, I don't see evidence "TV saturates us with desires that are
>> >undesirable". A great majority of TV does not do that, but what does,
like
>> the
>> >shootings, gets extra press. The exposure to violence and "bad" things
is a
>> >permanent fixture of culture. As someone who has witnessed death first
>> hand, I
>> >can say that television does NOT do the subject justice.
>
>