Desensitizing, brutalizing. Yesterday, I read a DU post about a story

[LisaM]

5. This is why I don't understand why people like violent movies.

I hate them and even get resentful when a preview pops into my viewing, usually on TV, but now at the movie theatre, too. They used to cater the previews to the movie we were watching but now we have to see everything (as a loose example, I went to see "Barbie", but still had to see a preview for 'Oppenheimer", which I was trying my best to avoid).

This reminds me of a book someone gave my partner for Christmas years ago, called "Sex Life in Ancient Rome". It was from one of his sisters, and they clearly had shopped only by title and hadn't looked at the contents. I started reading it and had to put it down, because it was like the scene described above. The people in the crowd were actually experiencing orgasms from watching other people get killed. It was a horrible, if revealing book.

I know people who would rather their kids be exposed to violence in movies rather than sexual situations, which floors me.

It's easy to blame Hegseth and he is a horrible person, but we as a culture seem to worship violence, at least in our movies and in our video games too. This is just business as usual. Can people watching even differentiate from this and what the entertainment industry exposes us to on a constant basis?