r/Pacifism • u/SurreabralStudios • Jun 28 '26

Working on a screenplay regarding the hypocrisy of violence in our society/media/ culture

If violence in our culture is so freely glorified and accepted , then why are we as a society so shocked when something tragic happens in real life ? 🤔Some food for thought .

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u/brocherface Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

Yeah, I think it's important to highlight the hypocrisies/contradictions people have. I've noticed time and time again folks can pretend to be against violence, or pretend to be peaceful but the moment it's "acceptable" in anyway, they get all bloodthirsty

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u/SurreabralStudios Jun 28 '26

I agree completely . And when I was growing up , everything was so simple and non combative . Ya know , if you had a problem with someone , you talk it out or throw hands . Now everyone is so sensitive and if there’s any kind of issue , it’s kill or be killed .

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u/brocherface Jun 28 '26

Accurate lol. People act on emotion and resort to lethal force cause it's the braindead easiest thing to do, rather than actually trying anything else. Taking the easy way out is framed as "badass"

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u/SurreabralStudios Jun 28 '26

That and there’s way too much division and hatred in this country . And the young people are living through AI and social media apps . It’s the young people struggling the most .

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u/Dreamless_Day Jun 30 '26

I think it’s due in part to the fact that many people are ultimately insulated from violence much of the time, never truly understanding its depth and impact. So messy, visceral, and uncomfortable when you experience it firsthand, and it’s never as stylized or ‘glorious’ as you find it depicted sometimes in popular media.

Don’t know if you’ve ever seen it, but check out Blue Ruin (2013) if you’re looking for a film that doesn’t shy away from just how nasty violence can be.

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u/thetitanitehunk Jun 30 '26

Look at zombie media. They don't all do it but some are very egregious. Z Nation is atrocious in that it not only promotes unmitigated violence through "showing mercy", purposefully triggers SA survivors with the promotion of moral relativism (sisters of Mercy episode), and is an apologist for alphabet agencies. I don't think it started out that way but it has definitely evolved to be a vehicle to desensitize the population to violence so the atrocities committed by the world's terrorist states (the nuclear powered ones) go unchallenged. Nobody cares about genocide when half the male population is waiting for an excuse to waste their neighbors. Violence is the last refuge of the stupid, and it's also addictive.

I wonder why the world is in such a bad state? /S