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I can't believe no one has made the assumption (sans Jerry Falwell/Bob Dole) that the entertainment and videogaming industries are jointly responsible for the recent Littleton high school massacre.
Since the shootings, an episode of Buffy has been pulled from this Tuesday's lineup, an episode of CBS's clunker Promise Land got yanked and a Marilyn Manson concert was nixed.
The Buffy episode, called "Earshot" featured a clairvoyant Buffy who read the minds of a student who contemplates killing some or all of his classmates. The Promise Land episode, also about a high school slaughter, was even more "dramatic." And the Marilyn Manson cancellation just plain speaks for itself.
I'm going to go ahead and launch a preliminary defense against those parents who want to point the accusing finger in the entertainment industry's direction by first offering a different type of finger gesture altogether.
Some are going to say, "hey Hollywood paints a glamorous picture of revenge and mass killing, no wonder our kids are killing each other." And I've heard rumors that videogames like Quake and Doom are responsible for the Littleton massacre.
Also, the chosen attire of the so-called Trenchcoat Mafia—black trench coats, black pants etc.—is sure to be linked to the recent blockbuster and sure to be classic movie, The Matrix.
It boils down to one word: fiction. This is real simple folks: all these products of the entertainment industry are fiction. And what finger waggers and critics don't get is that parents and/or responsible adults are ultimately responsible for their child's actions. You reap what you sow and if you're raising a child in a world where Vengence Unlimited represents reality, expect some trouble. That's the bottom line.
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Because some hick parent chose to get drunk and beat his wife instead of explain the difference between fantasy and reality to his child, or because a single mom "couldn't find the time" to define fiction to her son, is it fair to pass the blame on the television, movies or videogames?
All my so-called "friends" are addicted to the said three modes of entertainment like crackheads yet, oddly, none of them ever go on shooting sprees. Weird.
So, parents of would-be kiddy killers, have your kids tune in to daily tv, we'll be happy to raise them for you.
If, however, they still don't seem to grasp the definition of fantasy have them committed.
And if that isn't enough, here is a list of tell-tale signs your child might need to speak with a psychiatrist, guidance councilor, and/or shock therapist:
- A tendency to say, "shut up mom or I'll kill dad!"
- He doesn't apologize when his Glock 9mm keeps going off at the dinner table
- He carries a Glock 9mm to the dinner table
- His life ambition is to "smack some bitch up" on Jerry Springer
- A propensity to collect road kill
- Creates a website called http://www.I'm/gonna/kill/everyone.com/die.bitch
- He refers to daily sci-fi as "the bible"
—John
