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It's almost as if showing young people lots of movies where people murder other people who move weirdly (the zombies) might lead to kids imitating this behaviou
by fxtentacle 2y ago
It's almost as if showing young people lots of movies where people murder other people who move weirdly (the zombies) might lead to kids imitating this behaviour.
And I'm pretty sure this perfectly correlates with poverty. Both parents working means the kids are at home without supervision and with unlimited access to the TV and streaming services. In my childhood, it was still pretty easy to see that zombies were a movie invention, but with modern CGI, I can't tell the difference anymore.
- lupusreal 2y agoThe link between zombie movies and people stabbing each other with ""zombie knives"" (which I've never seen featured in zombie movies...) seems extremely dubious. I don't think these stabbings are caused by people acting out things they saw in movies.
- imdsm 2y agoI'm not sure about the first point. I grew up watching zombie films, playing resident evil, all those games, and have no feelings of going out and doing it to actual people. Yes, graphics were worse when we grew up (assuming same rough age) but we still looked at them and said "Wow so realistic!" so I don't think that the issue is that people now see realistic zombie films and think, great, I'll go stab someone on the bus for disagreeing with me. I think its more the case that people are living in dangerous neighbourhoods, so they carry a knife for protection and are amped up ready to use it and so at the first sign of confrontation, they do. What used to be a fist fight is now a knife fight. What used to be a sore head is now a dead body. But, I do agree with the poverty link. I grew up in poverty, I saw the lifestyle, the way people act, the way they aren't raised by their parents. It's been this way for thousands of years. It'll never change.