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NaturalBornKillers2.pptx“The medium is the message” –Marshall McLuhan
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“Violence is salvational in the American epic tradition.”
-Oliver Stone
“The ancients had visions; we have television. But the civilization of the spectacle is cruel, because the spectators have no memory. Because of that, they also lack remorse and true conscience.” – Octavio Paz
The enemy, it seems, are … those who are part of the poverty of the mind, the poverty of emotion and feeling. Those who never engage their potential, those who never try to feel or understand, those who train themselves not to care, those who do not seek an escape condemn themselves and the rest of us to rot. Their apathy, their denial, their willing submission to forces that control them makes the rest of us sick. We are poisoned because they let us become poisoned.” – Octavio Paz
“The virus that they spread is boredom, and with boredom comes insensitivity and with insensitivity comes inhumanity … If you cannot identify them then perhaps you are one of them. If you are one of them and you desire to change, then it will take a degree of honesty hitherto not experienced by yourself. You will cry, but you will not laugh. Life is not a joke. Life is not a sitcom, an action film, a football game, a job, a car, a few drunken memories in a hundred years. Life is love, friendship, beauty, rhythm, music, anger, peace. Don’t believe it, beliefs are too difficult to change. Just feel it.” – Octavio Paz
“bound by blood and aloof in their spiritual search for an elusive purpose” (28).
“We may be in a cinematic landscape of rear-screen projections, animated sequences and grainy 8mm film, but we are also in the psyche of a nation caught in the grip of fear and enthralled by the entertainment of it all at the same time” (31).
