i think this is pretty fucked up...

i was bullshitting with my buddies the other day and we came upon a realization. In American television, the programming tends to have more violent content than sexual content. In Europe, it's just the opposite. What does this tell us? It means that in America, they would rather show images of hate instead of love. I think that helps explain a few things.

 

interesting.... america has alot of sexual content though. But I have never been to Europe. If our damned president could just fucking open his eyes of what he has done to our economy and our country in whole, even the reputation of being an american, it would be nice, but thats never gonna happen. We are controled by a fucking idiot who believes in "killing murderers" is that not a tad bit hypocritical??

 

It's not that fact that one has committed murder that makes a man want to execute him, it's the great possibility of them doing it again. You may see an "eye for an eye,'' but in the majority of cases it's an "Eye for a bag of eyes"

 

How do you equate sex with love? The sex that is portrayed on TV hardly has anything to do with love. Both violence and sex are pushed by the media for a reason, and that's to instill a certain mindset in the public. Because the TV is what is behind culture creation, and people largely act based on what they see. Society copies what it sees on TV without thinking much of it. This is why many women today dress like prostitutes.

It benefits the people at the top to instill violent attitudes in people, as this provides the justification for more police and more clampdown on personal freedoms. Sex works by distracting people and making them obsessed with getting off, as well as to break down the family unit. Huxley talked about this in Brave New World.

 

are you kidding? i see sex in absolutely everything.

 

I wish they showed more violence over here in Europe, we get way too much sex.

 

well that's the excuse and there is some sense in denying the opportunity to repeat an offence to those who have demonstrated an inclination toward commiting one.

this however rather completely missess the point of the origeonal post, if not, and quite possibly that of the one immediately preceeding it.

specific personalities or even intrests aside, it IS a question of cultural values and the resaults therefrom.

it is hardly supprising, when viewed in that light, that the former fallows from the latter.

the insanity of killing hundreds of thousands and destroying the infrastructures of three and a half countries to remove from power one person, whome the same policies put and maintained in power just a few short decades earlier, largely on the pretense and excuse of 20 guys ripping off four airplanes and presumably knocking down two and a half buildings with them, killing arround three thousand in the proccess. this is not an eye for a bag full of eyes, but hundreds of thousands of eyes for a few thousands, or even 20 or even one. though the situation is somewhat more complex, with myths of devine right to world dominance and control of what is seen as, but need not remain, a key resource, and a number of other factors, economic and idiological, but all generally adding up to rather a great deal of insanity.

and i do think the astute perception of the values lying at the core of this insanity cited in the o.p. does make rather a great deal of sense. not in and of itself the WHOLE story, but highly indicative of where such absurdities are given birth.

the usurpation of the political proccess by economic intrests is another part of it, also made possible by people falling for the notion of the artificial reality of symbolic value being a default condition of the universe, which beyond human society, and possibly even within it, it is not.

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I'm not sure if in general there's more violence than sex, but what I know is that it's very true the shows and books (and else) for kids contain ALOT of violence, while sex is barely mentionned. (Althought there's more and more... but then again it's got nothing to do with love as in ''Peace and Love'')

 

I can't watch TV when I've been having a sex dry spell because it depresses me. Society has actually bored so far into my brain that I think sex is a necessary part of a thriving relationship. *groan* *sigh* *whimper*

 

it's because of christianity.

 

it took you til 19 years old to realize this? my friends and i were discussing this in freakin elementary school

anyway, yeah, gratuitous violence is far more acceptable than some nipple in north american tv. its rather silly if you ask me. but damn i miss my sex shows, i mean, educational shows

 

to be honest, i think it's because the vast majority of young people out there are still more inclined to have sex than perpetrate violence. it IS, after all, the more pleasurable and natural behavior. when you think about it, it's probably a lot more optimistic than not.

 

I don't know what I was talking about in that first post of mine.....I must of been asleep when I posted it.

People want to watch things that make them uncomfertable vicariously so they can't get hurt. Sex and violence will make a lot of people uncomfertable or "stirred up," thats why it sells, thats why people want to watch it. Thats why people watch the news in America....to see the world go down in flames from the good safe distance of their good safe living room.