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Education for a culture of peace.
Some think that is the responsibility of the school, someone else points to the family, others unload the burden on the Child Jesus. Many think they are just words. We will make a big step forward when we will understand that a culture of peace depends on everyone, on all of us. Especially those who have great influence on young people: parents, teachers, tutors, stars. Yes, stars! The very VIP of the world of entertainment with whom young people identify themselves. They spend many hours a day with the children and talk to them of a fake world that to all children seems true. Children move increasingly to that world; they dream it, they follow suit.
I would say that we are not doing a good job!
We have all grown up with images of shootings and TV murders and self-made vendettas, destructive videogames, good against evil, the strong against the weak, reds against blacks, exasperating competition in every corner of our lives. The opponent is not to be respected nor understood, we must reduce him, attack verbally, physically, we must strip him of any sympathy and humanity, it is only an enemy to be destroyed. As in the award-winning video clip "Girlfriend" by the beautiful Avril Lavigne, idol of teenagers, where edifying acts of shameless arrogance and bullying three-against-one, absolutely without any irony, are rewarded with the prize for "Best Canadian Video", as this is the most clicked video clip of all time on Youtube.
I prefer to be considered a stupid moralist: this video clip appears to me imbecile, vulgar and uneducational!
Bruno Picozzi (in translation)
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2 comments:
I don't know who was the first rockstar to destroy a guitar on stage or destroyed a hotel room, but, rock and pop music and violence have gone a long way together. It's the same with computer games, movies and... crime novels!
Once crime novels are forbidden because of violence, we'll get our share of problems. I know a couple of very violent movies that use violence to express certain things that cannot be said that convincing and direct without it. They are a piece of art and as such, especially nowadays, no limits are given and should be given, as art should be free as press and any repression of arts should not be tolerated as it was done in history by burning books and should not be done again.
Once all crime novels will be burned and no violence will be covered in the media anymore, no piece of art will be referencing any kind of violence but everything is just cheerfull and joy, many people might need strong drugs in order to keep being sane. Not all people were Hippies in the 70s. It's great they were, but why blame all the others?
Not to mention that there are so many kinds of violence and even suppressing anger is a kind of violence since it may lead to suicides. I think it's very sad that many kinds of violence are still part of our life.
As in the movie He Was A Quiet Man:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0760311/
violence is said to be a core constituent of humanity and in our society we have our primal instincts of revenge and violence replaced with lawyers and courts and then we wonder why some people don't get it and make a massaker (as in the movie)
The point is not to learn to hit people again, as in Fight Club, but rather to find ways and social lives and attitudes to avoid extreme violence.
Nevertheless people will always feel violence, even if it's just a friendly hit on the shoulder, people might take it for violence. People might just become more sensitive nowadays with so much less violence than in the past when teachers were hitting pupils.
The right way in my opinion, should not be to forbid violence in media but to actually use it in order to explain what happens. Of course I would rather see many movies not shown as they will for sure cause the wrong reaction in people that are not bright enough to make out the difference, but these are the biggest challenges of our democracies.
So until the consciousness of the white trash does not bear a critical mind, education for peace is ever more important, but it should not be going against main stream culture, as it is the way to get rid of the white trash ,but it should show worthy alternatives.
If music videos to propagate love and harmony are not as fun as Avril Lavigne, maybe there is a point to her success? Maybe other provocative videos were even more disturbing and maybe not everything on TV is not to be taken serious...
Actually I had a teacher who took the Axe commercials serious and was complaining about that they were kind of giving the wrong picture. But that is also exactly what Axe is about. They make fun of themselfs in a good way and presumably are very successful with it because people connect a funny story and good mood to Axe. I know many very dumb people but I don't think they would really believe that Commercial, but still they'd buy the image and the fun of Axe, as people buy the image and fun of Avril but don't believe she's a bad ass girl friend...
Actually she's Canadian (lots of weapons, low mortality) and has a steady boyfriend for several years already.
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