Another interesting post that passed unnoticed. Is strange to find these cool thoughts from long ago, read them, and then have the reflex to upvote - but is too late. I enjoy a lot of extremely violent and extremely non-violent ( if something like that exists :D) art and fiction. I watch a lot of horror movies ad example since childhood, and I have always liked the excitement of being scared or brought in some dark state of mind but not too deep and without serious repercussion in everyday life. I like even my nightmares, I mean bad dreams, also for the surprising imagination and the excitement ... and the fact that everything is all right when I wake up.
I like also the cartoonish violence, especially in real movies. Like those of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, but I don't experience them so much as violence, more like some bizarre fighting dance with some slapstick humor in it. Anyway, it doesn't need to be any violence present, for something to be entertaining to me. I like many other things, slow, poetic, imaginative stuff ... and many violent things are extremely boring, uninventive, empty and repetitive and I don't find that entertaining at all.
And yes ... the violence is been pushed as entertainment in media, more than any other aspect of existence. Maybe is just because is easier to catch the attention with this stuff. The violence, even if the related fiction is stupid and shallow, is inherently dramatic ... so is a cheap way to get some drama out of nothing.
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I appreciate the read and comment, even w/o the upvote, thanks for the thought:) I do feel like my best work went unnoticed, but it was and is relatively esoteric.
The fact that you were ingesting it while still in diapers might well be the reason you developed a taste for it, which is largely my point. It would be interesting (if possible) to find someone with your appetite for violence that was introduced to it as an adult. But who has led such a sheltered existence in this world?
I think that makes you an anomaly. Lol. I've never heard of anyone who likes their nightmares. Of all the people to read this post:D
Maybe, but were it not inculcated as a response as a child, I think our gut reaction would be to turn away. It defies all human empathy and compassion to want to watch pain and violence inflicted on another.
Of course I may be wrong but even if I am, leave me with my delusions. I'd rather preserve my opinion of human nature and humanity and believe that our natural predilection is to a higher sensibility.
But maybe that makes me an anomaly:)