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Originally Posted by MMM
You are conditioned to think and feel that way only if you allow yourself to be. I watch all the same movies and play all the same video games, but fortunately I am still able to disconnect emotionally with movies and video games, and am able to connect emotionally with reality.
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Its easy to say... but you dont have the power over your consciousness that you like to think you have.
It has been proven that violence on screen desensitizes us to violence in real life.
I admit to feeling more awe than shock when I saw footage of 911 for the first time.
Thankfully I have a conscience that was strong enough to check that feeling...
But that initial feeling of awe... the one that Aniki alludes to is something that could only have come about through desensitization to violence and things blowing up in my opinion.
My first thought was not... "Holy shit lots of people have died" It was... "DAMN! A plane just slammed into a building and took it out! You dont see that everyday"