dont blame the media
Don’t Blame The Media
We’ve all seen the violence in today’s media, but can we really blame the video games or television shows for the violence in our society? Did the cavemen of 20,000 B.C. need Call of Duty to fight each other into extinction? No. The media is not to blame for the violence we see everyday.
Society today has become almost comfortable with the violence we see everyday. Fights break out at schools all the time. Kidnappings happen, and Americans live everyday with the threat that a terrorists attack will happen at any moment. People have the idea that bad things happen. Bad things only happen when we let them. And people have let the idea that the T.V., movies, and video games that teenagers watch are the cause of all the bad things in the world. When really those bad things have been around longer than any media out there. It was there before Call of Duty, before the movies, and before T.V. Violence started when mankind did.
The generation before me blames the video games like Call of Duty, Battlefield, and Bioshock on the way kids act today, but their generation didn’t need video games to start either world war. It was the decisions of one man that started them. All the way back through history to the crusades and the American revolutionary war media was never a factor in starting wars. “The day that Cain bashed his brother Abel’s brains in, the only motivation he needed was his own human disposition to violence” (Manson, par. 1). Marilyn Manson wrote that in his paper, Columbine: Whose Fault Is It? proving to people that the ancients needed no media, or video games to cause war and carnage. When Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel he did it over a simple insult. During an up-state New York dinner party Burr thought Hamilton had insulted his honor, and challenged Hamilton to a pistol duel. I’m pretty sure Burr had never played Call of Duty. Duels and violence like this were an everyday part of life for people going
We’ve all seen the violence in today’s media, but can we really blame the video games or television shows for the violence in our society? Did the cavemen of 20,000 B.C. need Call of Duty to fight each other into extinction? No. The media is not to blame for the violence we see everyday.
Society today has become almost comfortable with the violence we see everyday. Fights break out at schools all the time. Kidnappings happen, and Americans live everyday with the threat that a terrorists attack will happen at any moment. People have the idea that bad things happen. Bad things only happen when we let them. And people have let the idea that the T.V., movies, and video games that teenagers watch are the cause of all the bad things in the world. When really those bad things have been around longer than any media out there. It was there before Call of Duty, before the movies, and before T.V. Violence started when mankind did.
The generation before me blames the video games like Call of Duty, Battlefield, and Bioshock on the way kids act today, but their generation didn’t need video games to start either world war. It was the decisions of one man that started them. All the way back through history to the crusades and the American revolutionary war media was never a factor in starting wars. “The day that Cain bashed his brother Abel’s brains in, the only motivation he needed was his own human disposition to violence” (Manson, par. 1). Marilyn Manson wrote that in his paper, Columbine: Whose Fault Is It? proving to people that the ancients needed no media, or video games to cause war and carnage. When Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel he did it over a simple insult. During an up-state New York dinner party Burr thought Hamilton had insulted his honor, and challenged Hamilton to a pistol duel. I’m pretty sure Burr had never played Call of Duty. Duels and violence like this were an everyday part of life for people going