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Wasn’t there a scene in one of the Minions kids films where a character deviously says ‘Somebody’s going to die tonight!’?
I was thinking that the other day.
Can you remember ll the recent films you've seen where an array of guns and rifles are displayed as the characters drool over them? It's in Iron Man. It's in The Heat. It's in Jackie Brown, John Wick, etc etc:
https://www.al.com/entertainment/2017/10/hollywoods_gun_obsession_41_mo.html
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Ftfy imo. The culture has glorified violence, conflict, adversity to the point that it’s stunted the general population’s ability to peaceful resolve disputes. Screaming, threats and guns are constantly portrayed as commonplace and as the go-to solutions in popular culture (as is police lawlessness and torture but that’s a tangential discussion), and since most Americans are raised as much by their popular media as they are by their families, it’s little surprise gun violence is rampant. Even things like college applications subconsciously reinforce the notion that high-level conflict is desirable because it gives people the chance to be a Hero (TM) and ‘enrich’ their story. (people don’t realise that part of what makes heroes heroic is that they sacrifice a part of themselves that they don’t get back; see Jesus and deities major and minor being destroyed, Frodo who left with the elves because he lived in pain as a shadow of his former self, etc., but that’s another tangent too).
Wasn’t there a scene in one of the Minions kids films where a character deviously says ‘Somebody’s going to die tonight!’? When was the last time you had a conversation and someone openly stated they were going to kill someone, and everyone just thought ‘Yep, that’s cool’. That might be normal but it’s not healthy in the long term, not for the individual and not for society.