We are a nation lusting for pharmaceutical solutions.
This means that care and attention to the emotional health of our fellows and ourselves is not encouraged or valued in this society.
Big problem.
We are today still shamed by mental illness and emotional unease, and we are taught to shun those feelings.
Ergo, we do not know who we are, and have little chance to get appropriate help when we need it or potential loving support.
To keep ourselves undercover, from ourselves as well as from others, we may choose to get a specific prescription for each mental state we wish to hide.
At the same time, we soullessly sell a conditioned violence to all who watch and listen to the media. It is a conditioning that is in the air; the sounds, sights, and attitudes of human disconnection and destruction.
Add to this the ubiquitous multi-layering of videos, movies, television shows blaring high volume blasts, the tribal war soundtracks enacting scenes of hatred and betrayal.
I'm not saying that the media is solely responsible for the normalizing of violence. Not solely, but maybe 50%.
The media has long been a matter of big business. Whatever sells big, it advertises.
If a show needs brutality to be a winner, bring it on.
The problem is, broadcasters bring it on in possibly mind-splitting ways to audience members who are on the edge to begin with.
Further, they introduce, to all who listen and watch, the notion that horror and terror are waiting just around the corner, with or without the music of danger.
You may ask why the media is to blame at all, let alone my giving it the responsibility of being 50% of the violence problem.
To this, I say it is because people are weak and passive while they sleep, and most people are asleep.
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