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The other day, I saw a movie scene on YouTube where a guy is knife-fighting with another guy. There is a stab in the throat at the end, where all the life drain
by vouaobrasil 3y ago
The other day, I saw a movie scene on YouTube where a guy is knife-fighting with another guy. There is a stab in the throat at the end, where all the life drains from his face. Blood is gushing and we see a human being kill another human being.
I really don't understand why Google (and Western society) condones this sort of content while having a near zero-tolerance policy towards sex and love.
But I figured it out today: violent media re-directs our rage against the unsustainable culture and gives it an outlet. I'm not bashing on violent entertainment BTW: I like martial arts movies. But it does have a deeper function: to give us a sense of justice (good versus bad), and distract us away from the atrocities of consumerism (destruction of the planet which gave us life).
In short, violent media HELPS global capitalism and its destructiveness.
Then why is sex banned? Yes, we can look for the superficial reasons, like "oooh, parents don't want their kids to view this stuff". But that does not even apply here, especially because this was in a private Google docs. No, sex is treated harshly because it is primal and goes against civilization: it represents a more primal human connection, and human connection is antithetical to consumerism and the destruction of the environment.
Yes, we can also look for historical religious reasons, but there is a reason why such religious motivation survived, and other religious practices do NOT: any social practice which survives does so because it confers benefits to those who promote the practice. In this case, it confers benefits to the capitalists.
- mjburgess 3y agoWatching violent films doesn't make you violent. Watching sexual content does (occasionally) make you want to have sex. There really isnt anything more to it than that. People who want to censor sexual content are accurately assessing its disposition to arouse audiences; and accurately assessing violent film's disposition to induce catharsis.
- nottorp 3y agoCitation needed...
- vouaobrasil 3y agoI never said it made you violent, only that it provides an outlet for distraction.
- Al0neStar 3y agoWhy do they have a problem with people being aroused?
- black6 3y agoActs of hate are allowed by the censors to be viewed, while acts of love are not. This speaks very highly about the state of American society.
- namaria 3y agoViolence is channeled by western society as a righteous vengeance. Sex is channeled as the reproductive force of nuclear families. It's not that one is celebrated and the other oppressed. Violence against the innocent is always punished by a righteous warrior. And sex is not condemned. It is celebrated in the context of long term coupling to raise children. Promiscuity and non-reproductive sex is therefore seen as threat. An eligible target for the fury of the righteous. Non reproductive sex in western societies is only celebrated in the context of overpopulated urban centers.
- jupp0r 3y agoThere is plenty of scientific evidence out there that even people in western rural areas enjoy sex because it's fun.
- namaria 3y agoMainstream cultural mores as reflected in media is not the same as the values of everyone in a society.
- UncleEntity 3y agoThough, to be fair, the barnyard animals might disagree...
- throwaway220033 3y ago[flagged]
- Hizonner 3y agoBy "the non-woke parts of the world", you mean the parts with less advanced technology, less per-capita economic production by every measure, less personal security, less general education of the populace, and just generally less of every possible benefit of having "a civilization". And by "always" you mean times with less of all those things. You're not very good at this...
- throwaway220033 3y agoDon’t you sound so narcissistic? Was Roman Empire obsessed with sexuality when it was its peak? Was the western empire today obsessed with sexuality or more conservative when it was the superpower in the world? Western people project their trauma with Catholicism to all cultures and traditions for some reason and they think they owe their development to abandoning norms and just having public orgies in SF streets. When people think of west these days they think about pee and drug smelling dirty streets and collective madness of making all kinds of weird sexual acts public. The superiority of West of now is pure narcissism. High skilled people now prefer working remotely if they have to work for a western company, instead of moving there permanently. Visit China to see how civilization is built in 20 years.
- btbuildem 3y agoViolence is one of the key tools of the exploitative capitalist system. Society (as we have it set up) wouldn't function without a means of oppression, and so it is widely celebrated in popular culture. I'm not saying it's some wild conspiracy, it's just the side effects of it being one of the core mechanisms of the society we live in - it resonates throughout.