Children's cartoons have often been slammed for portraying too
much violence whether it is of an actual physical combat variety or immature clownishness.
Not exact matches
Much still needs to be said and written about
violence perpetuated by Christians against each other, because an analysis of such
violence will help us to understand
whether or not Christianity has contributed to the nurturing and fostering of peace.
Look at how
much less space there is between people than even just twenty years ago; look at how
much violence a child sees all day long (
whether recreational or real - life drama in their own lives); look at how
much information many children are exposed to daily without any oversight.
In theories of protest and revolution, the question
whether violence is justified is premissed on the idea that it is probable.On the other hand, as is often observed,
much modern social and political theory more or less eclipsed war within or between states, taking the socialising and civilising forces of historical progress for granted.
In moments of political precariousness, where people are faced with terrible losses
whether because of economic crisis or political
violence, the temptation is very
much to find a kind of commonality in that trait of finitude or vulnerability, and to look for a way to build ethics and politics on that commonality.
Yet this as
much a film about eco-terrorism as Meek's Cutoff was a film about the American gold rush, operating as a rich, sui generic parable for any and all acts of
violence,
whether micro scale such as the one chronicled here, or those sanctioned by governments with a view to being executed in foreign climes.
What concerns me, and has for a while now, is not so
much whether this is licit or illicit conduct — that is, what the law has to say about violent video games — but the prevalence of
violence in video games and their immense popularity as social facts.