Feels like a moral panic. There’s an enormously long history of gory spectacle as entertainment, from “Titus Andronicus” to Grand Guignol to Hammer films.
Total: Absolutely. I was going to make that same point but somehow didn’t… Throughout history, people have adored witnessing the bloodiest most sadistic gore.
But given the enormous and incessant phenomenon mass voyeuristic sadism now is (and this is new, made possible by modern technologies and multinational capitalism) I don’t think being “disturbed” by it (Bruni’s word – not panic) is unjustified, especially given the very young age of many of the spectators.
October 22nd, 2021 at 6:01AM
Feels like a moral panic. There’s an enormously long history of gory spectacle as entertainment, from “Titus Andronicus” to Grand Guignol to Hammer films.
October 22nd, 2021 at 6:22AM
Total: Absolutely. I was going to make that same point but somehow didn’t… Throughout history, people have adored witnessing the bloodiest most sadistic gore.
But given the enormous and incessant phenomenon mass voyeuristic sadism now is (and this is new, made possible by modern technologies and multinational capitalism) I don’t think being “disturbed” by it (Bruni’s word – not panic) is unjustified, especially given the very young age of many of the spectators.