<p>I was just thinking about how people are sexually and violently desensitized by movies and music and other pop culture. Discuss.</p>
<p>I think it is valid to a certain extent, but historically speaking, we have higher standards concerning brutality - many of the things that occurred during the Spanish Inquisition, Mongol Invasions, and Thirty Years’ War would be totally unacceptable today, and I don’t think normal people would be any more willing to do them of their own volition.</p>
<p>I think I’m definitely desensitized by the media/internet, but only to a certain extent. If it’s something that I have no attachment to, I am “desensitized.” If it’s something I do have some relation to, I’m not at all.</p>
<p>For example, if I see all the grotesque, disturbing things on such forums as 4chan, I wouldn’t bat an eyelash. If that stuff were “real-life”, I definitely would. As for sexually desensitized, definitely, in all cases. We’re surrounded by sex these days.</p>
<p>So true, I mean, I get really annoyed when people think that the present day so inherently worse than the past. “Back in the good ol’ days” The problems of the world only ever replace each other. But in this dawn of information. I think it’s a real concern. I myself am glad gory movies disgust me. It makes me more human. And in a way, it enhances the effect of the movie.</p>
<p>^^^Thank you CPA. That point is not mentioned enough, although, of course desensitization is present in a new, arguably more prevalent way too.</p>