I just now read this post Slip but of course I've seen parts of the video on the news already and was appalled along with the rest of the world. I have to wonder why any one would choose to live in such a place. Granted the kid didn't have much choice but I wonder if the parents suffer overwhelming guilt and shame over their choice of residence or if they choose to blame others for the circumstances of their son's death. One expects hoodlums to come to a bad end but by all accounts this youngster wasn't one. It is so sad. It makes me angry as as well. Maybe this will galvanize the parents of others to get their kids OUT of the slums.
I know next to nothing about this or the people that committed the crime. I would be very, very surprised if the murders didn't already have several violent reports on their rap sheets. Chicago just churns these scum bags back out in the street. I think it has a lot less to do with violent video games and a lot more to do with bored kids with absolutely no direction but crime and prison. I blame the parents and an enabling society. This kinda shit doesn't happen in my neighborhood. Halo 3 and GTA are very violent and the top sellers around here but the kids manage not to kill each other. Did you see all the people watching and doing NOTHING? If it did happen in my neighborhood I'd leave skid marks in my driveway on my way out of town. I just don't get it and I don't think I ever will. dj On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/video_derrion_albert > > In the past it would seem, in some abstract way, understandable as > cultures had conflict in establishing rule or territorial > acquisitions. Today it is hard to understand in the context of a > civilized nation. I see in the video a primitive sort of behavior, > unwarranted and inexcusable. This is murder, violence at it's peak, > street violence not different than that of any jungle warfare. > I also see a tendency in youth of becoming numb to the concept of > violence as a result of years of exposure by various forms of what is > oddly enough called entertainment. > Is violence pushed on society like cigarettes and alcohol? Should we > continue to allow portrayals of violence on the screen because > violence exists? I don't understand why they are making movies and > television series based on despicable characterization, it's almost > like glorifying the behavior, setting up role models for dummies to > identify with. We have lost our sense of abhorrence towards this > behavior and are heading in the wrong direction as a society? > I'm not sure that we will ever be able to weed out the violent > behavior that is inherent in our species. > What do you see? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
