"A new webcast series will focus on the fictional stories of three women who face unintended pregnancies. It will allow viewers to choose how the characters’ stories will end for the final episode."
Catholic News Agency
How is this really any different than the crowds in the Roman Coliseum raising or lowering their thumbs to decide the fate of the vanquished gladiator? The shouts of Mitte! or Iugula! will be heard once again, the crowds granted the power of life and death over another innocent human being; a power that should be reserved to God alone.
I realize that these are fictional stories but it kind of reminds me of target shooting. The military and police use human shaped targets far a reason. The military found that by shooting at something shaped like a person soldiers were more likely to pull the trigger when confronted with the real thing. Before the change most soldiers would intentionality miss or not fire at all when they first went into combat. After the change, this problem mostly disappeared.
Shows like this serve the same purpose. They get people accustomed to the idea that they have a choice about whether their baby lives or dies. They learn to pull the trigger.
We should be on our knees begging forgiveness but instead we've turned murdering children into a game show. We deserve the fate we've asked for.
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"I realize that these are fictional stories but it kind of reminds me of target shooting. The military and police use human shaped targets far a reason. The military found that by shooting at something shaped like a person soldiers were more likely to pull the trigger when confronted with the real thing. Before the change most soldiers would intentionality miss or not fire at all when they first went into combat. After the change, this problem mostly disappeared."
ReplyDeleteI would say that's an excellent parallel. You prep the mind 98%, and then all what's needed is a 2% shift from mind-fantasy to carrying it out in reality.
Also, notice the HUGE drop in fiction on T.V. It's practically all non-fiction - as in realit T.V. It's not just a sign that we as a culture have lost the ability to tell stories (even if most were shallow distractive stories), but that T.V. has lost that "buffer" zone. No longer given stories to follow, we will be issued orders (whether I mean that literally or figuratively, I don't know).
"No longer given stories to follow, we will be issued orders (whether I mean that literally or figuratively, I don't know)"
ReplyDeleteDamn, that just opened up a whole new train of thought. I can't really get a clear picture of where it will take me but the implications are incredible.
Can reality TV blur the border between reality and fantasy so effectively that it could be used to implant suggestions in a thoroughly subliminal way in the minds of a public already devoid of real imagination?
I do believe TV has created a void in most people where imagination used to reside. I see this most profoundly around kids that can't make up games out of the materials at hand. I see it in adults, too. So many have so little creativity that it impedes their ability to think abstractly.
I've got to think about this and where it could lead. If people in general are becoming less creative there is no reason to think that this is not occurring to those that go into the entertainment business, too. If this thing feeds on itself no telling what we'll call entertainment in a few years.
Of course, I bet a whole population of dull, robotic people would be just perfect for a world where the few control the wealth and the means of production. All we'd need to be capable of is to follow simple instructions and show no initiative. Just do our job and go home to stare at a test pattern and wipe the drool from our chins.
I'm thinking you've got the makings of a fine science fiction book here.
"Mitte" and "Iugula" are such appropriate words.
ReplyDeleteMitto, mittere, misi, missus:
send, throw, hurl, cast; let out, release, dismiss; disregard
This goes into our English word "dismiss."
iugulo, iugulare, iugulavi, iugulatus:
kill by slitting the throat; butcher, kill, murder, slay; cut the throat
This goes into our English word "jugular" as in "jugular vein".
Ah, but just as we have forgotten the roots of our past (history), so also we have forgotten the roots of our language and that's why we murder unborn babies to the tune of two every minute of every hour of every day of every year since 1972 in these United States.