News articles have brought attention to recent incidences of human behavior that can only be called, "bizarre," or in psychological terms, "aberrant" and "pathological." Of particular public concern is the" Zombie" meme* that has arisen, causing a great deal of fear, with the result that many individuals are reported as having purchased "Zombie Bullets" for their guns. (A recent Google search for the word, "Zombies" brings up 186 Million results in 27 Seconds.) The news reports regarding such bizarre behavior over the last month, probably exceeds the number of such stories which have surfaced in news reports since WWII.
Why this idea now? Specifically, planting this idea in modern peoples' minds has been accomplished by Hollywood, which has done its part by putting out, "hits" such as, "Night of the Living Dead" featuring flesh-eating zombies. The video-game designers have done their part by providing the game, "Resident Evil," as well as, perhaps, other such games. They have at least called it what it is--evil--actually, it is the deliberate dulling of the human emotional reaction to watching rank evil.
I have believed for some time that the genres of violent and horror movies, and on TV, has been a deliberate effort to dull the human senses to acts of violence and evil in general. Even the Center for Disease Control has gotten into the act by using the title, "Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse," as a way of promoting preparedness for major natural disasters.
It is well known that Religions are big on talking about, and labeling behavior they disapprove of as, "Evil." Perhaps in reaction to this, those individuals who have removed themselves from membership in the various Religions, but still consider themselves to be spiritual, have dismissed the idea of, "evil." in the world.
In fact, many of us, trying our best to not judge our fellow humans, have bent-over-backwards in this regard. It is easy to confuse, "calling a spade, a spade" with being judgmental. Those of us who were in this world after WWII, had to deal with the revelations about the Holocaust; as is known, there are many, "holocaust deniers" still around. Those born later have had to deal with revelations of Vietnam War Crimes, as well as watching the Vietnam War live on their TV screens. Since then, what the Military has done to keep us from knowing about the horrors of war, has been made up for by the violence and horror presented to us by Hollywood and the video game industry.
As indicated by the definition of a "meme," (see note at the bottom of this article) the reporting of others acting in a violent and/or bizarre way has the ability to spread such behavior among the ethically corrupted portions of our human population. Not incidentally, this extreme pathological behavior, succeeds in promoting extreme fear among the general populous.
As we learned in the '60s, aberrant behavior, such as a lone gunman targeting random individuals, creates more incidences, because of, "copy-cat behavior." One only needs to bring to mind the massacre at the school in Columbine, Colorado, which produced, and still prompt many young persons to make plans for, if to not actually commit, copy-cat attacks.
As far as I am concerned, many movies and, at minimum, most videos are created as a deliberate assault on human ethical behavior. If not directly, then indirectly to those of us who still have a sense of morality by desensitizing them, because of the rationale that, "experts" say that viewing and playing such movies and games does not do any damage to those watching and/or playing them.
Anytime someone dares to charge the movie industry, as well as those producing violent videos, of causing damage to young psyches by putting out such material, the debunkers are vociferous in denying any connection to recent acts of carnage by adolescents plotting, and many actually carrying out, extreme violent rampages. I personally, believe such violent behaviors are the direct result of watching violent and horror films and playing brutal video games having destroyed the individual's innate human sense of what is wrong behavior.
To suggest that such behavior is the result of our, "animal origins," as we would be told by those Indoctrinated by the Scientific Consensus Belief System, cannot be established, even using the rationale of that System. Nowhere in the research will be found evidence that any of the higher animal groups, let alone the primates, engage in such behavior among their own kind.
The popularity of Netflix is a testament regarding how addicted the population is to watching what Hollywood and the TV Networks are putting out as "entertainment." If you, yourself, or members of your family, watch violent movies and/or play such video games, and think your, or their, moral sense has not been undermined, you need to think again. Additionally, such viewing creates an adrenaline addiction, which can only be satiated by more of the adrenaline-producing viewing and playing, just the same as any other drug addiction.
Also, as long as those of us professing to pursue a positive frame of mind, denying the possibility of the existence of intentional evil, and the deliberate undermining/destruction of the human sense of morality--right and wrong--in the younger members of the population, we only contribute to its proliferation.
* A cultural item that is transmitted by repetition in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes. Dictionary.com
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