Have we really changed all that much?

Question

In the modern age we see violence, terror and Immorality on the TV, the Internet and in newspapers every day. Has the world suddenly become such a terrible place or could it be that we are just more aware these days. Perhaps all media doe's is open our eyes to all these things? After all, if we look back in time it is very clear that the human race has never been unfamiliar with war, violence, hatred and prejudice.

If In fact we are actually in decline and becoming more violent and less humane as a race, why is that? Could it be that media is to blame or is religion really the root of all evil?

Are we becoming more tolerant to violence? On one hand we say war is bad, end terror, but on the other hand we further and further allow TV, films, computer games and even the music industry to glorify and subject us to it every day. How far can you keep pushing the line before there is no longer a line?

Answer 1

Yes, I blame the media for it all

Answer 2

Please Read The Above User Then Read This.....

To Say We Are Getting More TolerantTo Violence Is Difficult To Say, Because As You Grow You Apply New Meaning And Undersatndings Around You, And Now We Find That The Media Is A Large Chunk Of That

But I Found That Watching All These Recorded Fights And Violence Which Were Captured Are Just Constructed Pieces Of Reality That The Editor Or Filmmaker Want To To Observe....

When We Are Really Placed Into These Circumsatnces, The Brain Won't Serach Through Its Database And Find The Closest Media It Has Seen, But More Search For Real Life Physcial Intercations In The Current Sitution...

For Example If You Was To Get In A Fight Or Be In A Fire, And Had Seen It On Tv Millions Of Times, But When Placed In This For The First Time You Have No Conditioning To The Current Circumstantes Then Your Body Would Automaticly Tremble With Fear, Anxety And Adrenaline (Fight Or Flea) - In Order To Feel In Control, Yo Have To Experience These Situtions For A While Until The Mind And Brain Condition You To Feel Stronger In These --------Hence A Murderer Felt Angry And Frightened The First Time But As He / She Did It More Often It Becomes Second Nature (Don't Copy This Please - Imformation Only)

So The Media Only Portray A Constructed Piece Of Reality So We Feel Safe In Our Own Comfort Zone

Only The Mentally Unstable Will Use The Media For An Excuse And Create More Tabliod News

Thank You For You Time

Answer 3

LOL why do people blame the media?
What I see on the news are REAL people doing REAL things that go on in the world, as stupid as may be..... The problem does lie however in the fact that it's always there. We become numb to something when it seems like an everyday occurence ( just like you get used to that neighbor's real ugly dog and you eventually find him kinda cute)..
Violence has always been there, will always be and oh well.
I think we're better off now though.. I mean seriously, the Guillotine? slavery?Feudalism?
Now we have terrorism.... I guess I'll take my chances...

Answer 4

I think it is all about what we concentrate and focus on. Media is making us more aware of what goes on around us, but because it is believed that we are all so fascinated with the gruesome, the macabre and the darker sides of human nature, this is what is concentrated on.

Even religion which basically has its base in good, gets pulled into the same void!

To progress we need to be positive, not negative and for this to happen; everybody, including the all powerful media and religion, need to focus less on the bad, and more on the good in this world.

If the media does not report on terrorist bombings, does it have the same terrorist effect? And therefore who is the terrorist, the bomber or the reporter that sends hysteria around the world in the bombs aftermath?

At the moment most stories are reported, but some are 'front page' and others are all but 'buried one liners', we need to make the positive (up-lifting) stories the front page issues and report the really sad things that happen in the world as one line reports in the same way as the positive stories are reported now.

We become tolerant of the things we see alot of, so if constantly exposed to violence and sadness, we become almost numb to it!

As the most of the 'perpetrators' of 'bad' things in our world are to a greater or lesser degree - 'mentally unstable', We really do reap what we sow!

Answer 5

There has always been violence, terrorism just look at what the crusaders did and had done to them. Then we have the Inquisition and it wasn't just amongst Christian communities that violence and terror reigned - look at the Mongolian invasions of China and India.......

Today there is immediate coverage in graphic detail and colour - it isn't like in the old days when reports were by letter.

Violence begets violence I'm afaid and I think it is part of man's survival instinct to "hit before you are hit", to retaliate, amd to wipe out anyone or anything that is different from the norm.

Answer 6

The human race has ALWAYS been intolerable to each other, has always tortured murdered and fought with one another,
they have always been blind to each others needs and mutuula respects and customs and religions. You just have to look back at all the wars the world has endured in the past, the burning of wiches at the stake.
The throwing of Christians to the lions, the gassing of the jews by the Nazis and the killing fields enddured by the Cambodians under the ruthless regime by Pol Pot.

History has recorded that we humans are barbaric towards each other, so much so in fact that I would say if we witnessed Chimps, Gorillas, hell even seahorses behave in a way as we do to our fellow species we would class them as a trually evil animal.

Now in the year 2006 it just is a hell of a lot easier for mankind to record their ruthlesness to each other and display it.

In reality though, had the net existed in days gone by I personally think we would be more shocked and apalled than we are in the present day.

Answer 7

Change is constant; and development is an illusion. We cannot live without an illusion of development, and we cannot stop change. A sense of development is a real thing. It is a real need the fulfilment of which propels us further along. Ancient Egyptians had their illusion of development. They believed that they are at the peak of civilisation. So did Romans, and both were right.

The important fact is that life is just, intelligent and purposeful. It has always provided us with opportunities to push the boundaries of our physical world. There have always been doors available for us to open to experience excellence of our existence within a lifespan of a normal person, without having to develop as we are today, or as Romans or Egyptians were in their times.

The change or development as we know today is not something special or a thing of absolute value. If it is then we can conclude that the people of the past were unfortunate. They did not have what we have; they were deprived of their opportunity to be what we can be just by living in a different time and age. If this is the case that life is unjust, unintelligently random and purposeless – not what we value most.

If on the other hand we believe life is a universally intelligent activity and just then true developmental change cannot be dependant upon the things of certain time – like science and technology. What could that be - something that has been with us all along? Something universal and permanent that we have overlooked in the wake of rapid modern changes caused by developments in science and technology?

The most significant aspect of modern development, however, is that we are closer to each other than we ever were in our history. This is true that we have developed intellectually and culturally. We have better communities. We are more tolerant towards thing around us because we know better not because we are better than we ever were.

Media is the most conducive tool in bringing us closer to each other, after our ability to transport ourselves round the globe so easily in short time. Media brings into focus what we otherwise would never know. It is in fact what we like to know and see. It is our own reflection. When different people get closer there bound to be conflicts, issues and clashes.

We are not in decline; we are just distracted in the glare of our scientific knowledge and the power that it renders at our disposal. The religion is not to blame for ills of our time. In fact religious thought is the best we can have as a universal constant in face of transient nature of developmental phases of our lives.

We will become even better people once we realise that what we need to become a better people is innately in our selves, as it has always been. We can open that door anytime, as we could at any time in the past. Presently, we are overwhelmed by new phenomena called globalisation. Once we are able to get our heads round this, we will be able to see what is transient and what is permanent. This phase of development will pass, and another will start, but we will remain the same with equal opportunities to be what we can be for all ages, as there have always been throughout ages.

Answer 8

yes we have changed a lot.

Besides war, there is a vast majority of people enjoying very peaceful and prosperous times.

For the future.
Already, CNN is giving transparent - unbiased documentaries of who Osama Bin Laden is - why he did what he did.

the new breed of youngsters who are 8 -10, when they become 35, rulers, media, business leaders and general public they will not tolerate all this nonsense. inefficiency, racism, inequality in the world population, mindless war, unbelievably so many childeren going hungry everynight.....

With the help of Internet they will unite all the people of this earth into one community.

EnJoy

Answer 9

I think the world is now full of violence because of the increasing rise in technology which as compel a lot of people to do their worse inother to possee it .Second because of 'absolute freedom' the media as the rigth to advertsie whatever people send to themand peo

Answer 10

Don't you know?
Human keep fighting even when there's no technology.
Irac vs Iran,
China & India
World war 2,
World war 1,
The white guy and the red skin.
Caesar's empire,
Alexander the great,
China vs Japan,
China vs Mongols,
Romance of Three kingdom (and many strugle for China empire),
Yoshitshune, Nobunaga,
The holy war between catholic and the islam (what's that call, I forgot).
[those are the big ones]

And we know there's many violence just because we can see the world from tv, radio, internet.

As long as there is glory, there's always people try to reach it.
As long as there is religion, there's always people try to eliminate the other one.
As long as there is a thing, there's always people who try to have it.
as long as people has desire, there's always something to reach.

Answer 11

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