Hollywood responds to deadly Conn. school shooting - Yahoo! News
"We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence," Jamie Foxx said in an interview on Saturday. "It does."
Ya think? The average 10-year-old has seen tens of thousands of acts of homicide in his lifetime.
That kid reportedly has trouble differentiating between the news, movies, and video game violence. But they keep seeing homicide. We keep seeing more violence. Let's change this cycle.
I've boycotted Tarantino films (even though he's a good story-teller) and almost all other overtly violent films and tv shows for years because YAWN of the stupid, excessive morbid violence in them.
I am ahead of the curve, I think, and pray.
There's lots of things better to do than participate in that milieu: play music, play sports, play with your kids, scuba dive, bungee jump, find your X Games inner athlete and push your inner boundaries and kick ass at the top end of your potential... eat hot peppers, have sex, have more interesting sex, read the greatest novels, study eastern religion and culture, learn about terra forming and plans to expand our space programs, find video games that challenge people to find out the DNA alleles responsible for AIDS and HIV, blog, mentor a kid, watch a Bruin game, donate time to a soup kitchen, read about, volunteer for and support Doctors Without Borders, brew your own ginger beer, paint, and start a garden and grow your own food, for a few.
"We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence," Jamie Foxx said in an interview on Saturday. "It does."
Ya think? The average 10-year-old has seen tens of thousands of acts of homicide in his lifetime.
That kid reportedly has trouble differentiating between the news, movies, and video game violence. But they keep seeing homicide. We keep seeing more violence. Let's change this cycle.
I've boycotted Tarantino films (even though he's a good story-teller) and almost all other overtly violent films and tv shows for years because YAWN of the stupid, excessive morbid violence in them.
I am ahead of the curve, I think, and pray.
There's lots of things better to do than participate in that milieu: play music, play sports, play with your kids, scuba dive, bungee jump, find your X Games inner athlete and push your inner boundaries and kick ass at the top end of your potential... eat hot peppers, have sex, have more interesting sex, read the greatest novels, study eastern religion and culture, learn about terra forming and plans to expand our space programs, find video games that challenge people to find out the DNA alleles responsible for AIDS and HIV, blog, mentor a kid, watch a Bruin game, donate time to a soup kitchen, read about, volunteer for and support Doctors Without Borders, brew your own ginger beer, paint, and start a garden and grow your own food, for a few.
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