While watching a police chase on TV the other day, I came to realize how much it doesnt interest me the way it used to about 5 years ago. I remember being all excited about these caught on camera things and going like Oh my god the guy crashed and it happened for real and they got it on tape and I just wanted more and more... Bloood!! But now it seems like they gave us so much of this crap I have become totally saturated, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one feeling this way.. It even got to the point where I just switch the channel and try to find something more interesting... Same goes for some over-predictable actions movies, where special effects and eye-catching stunts is a must...
Since they dont wanna get redundant, they push it to the extreme every time, trying to show us something we havent seen before. I just wonder what they're gonna do next.. like in 20 years from now... I predict the live executions or deathmatch
Well, that was my "what is this society coming to" contribution for the day
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Nov-22-2003 22:14
AnotherWay83
The B00b Maintenance Guy™
Registered: Aug 2000
Location: land of d(-_-)b
so it took you 5 yrs. before you got sick of that crap? lol...
j/k...yeah it got old pretty fast for me too...but they've gotta fill time with some news, ANY news, and when nothing truly newsworthy is happening they'll just pick anything at all...
Nov-22-2003 22:29
whiskers
old skool
Registered: Sep 2001
Location: in your dreams
Re: Immuned to sensationnalism
quote:
Originally posted by N|te-L|fe
Well, that was my "what is this society coming to" contribution for the day
congratulations, someday in the future picking up the remote and turning the tv on will seem to you as a very gruesome task.
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Nov-22-2003 22:29
whiskers
old skool
Registered: Sep 2001
Location: in your dreams
quote:
Originally posted by AnotherWay83
so it took you 5 yrs. before you got sick of that crap? lol...
j/k...yeah it got old pretty fast for me too...but they've gotta fill time with some news, ANY news, and when nothing truly newsworthy is happening they'll just pick anything at all...
the only news that's worth watching, IMHO, is the daily show on comedy central.
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Nov-22-2003 22:30
N|te-L|fe
I saw GOD, now I can die
Registered: May 2003
Location: Quebec
Re: Re: Immuned to sensationnalism
quote:
Originally posted by whiskers
congratulations, someday in the future picking up the remote and turning the tv on will seem to you as a very gruesome task.
no...
voice recognition systems will probably available everywhere by this time
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Nov-22-2003 22:36
whiskers
old skool
Registered: Sep 2001
Location: in your dreams
maybe, but tv will be even more pointless by then
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Nov-22-2003 22:52
Mebot
Maverick
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Seattle
Catharsis theory, the more you're subjected to violence the more desensitized you become to it.
I agree,we live in a more violent society where the codes of decency have been pushed further and further..
just think almost half a century ago, it was indecent to show Elvis presley dancing his signature pelvic thrusts on TV..and now we have blood, nudity, gore, etc..
Nov-22-2003 22:57
Boomer187
Spicy Hotdog
Registered: Aug 2001
Location: USA
I wish I would desensitize to these farts, it smeels like hell up in here.
yeah, that was useless. but good topic, it not only effects your tv watching habits but thing in real life, ya don't bat an eye at most things that ya should.
Nov-23-2003 02:02
igottaknow
PerfectTeeth R4 Dinosaurs
Registered: Feb 2001
Location: The Future
I blame it on OJ its pretty hard topping that circus. Come on Michael Jackson that slow motion Bronco thing is so 1994, come up with something orginal ur a superstar act like it!
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Nov-23-2003 02:11
whiskers
old skool
Registered: Sep 2001
Location: in your dreams
quote:
Originally posted by igottaknow
I blame it on OJ its pretty hard topping that circus. Common Michael Jackson that slow motion Bronco thing is so 1994, come up with something orginal ur a superstar act like it!
what the fuck is the story behind this, everyone's talking about it and i don't know anything... i need to research... too lazy... don't care... michael jackson... heh, who gives a shit.
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Nov-23-2003 02:13
montie
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Registered: Aug 2002
Location:
quote:
Originally posted by Mebot
Catharsis theory, the more you're subjected to violence the more desensitized you become to it.
I agree,we live in a more violent society where the codes of decency have been pushed further and further..
just think almost half a century ago, it was indecent to show Elvis presley dancing his signature pelvic thrusts on TV..and now we have blood, nudity, gore, etc..
we don't live in a more violent society. society has always been violent.
id even propose that society today is less violent than it was in the past.
we just have all these means of communication which makes it able for us to see and hear violence.
and recently, we have become alot more lax on censorship and more open in general.
Nov-23-2003 02:18
Boomer187
Spicy Hotdog
Registered: Aug 2001
Location: USA
quote:
Originally posted by whiskers
what the fuck is the story behind this, everyone's talking about it and i don't know anything... i need to research... too lazy... don't care... michael jackson... heh, who gives a shit.
he drove around in a car while police had a warrent out for his arrest. I was gonna go down to the strip or try to find him just to give him a large note calling him a pederass.