For Entertainment Only?

I have been following some of the new chat shows and reality shows for some time on the recommendation of my friends here and back home. I will be the first one to admit that I am one of those who dig their womanly claws in crazy on your face shows. But over time, as I see these shows they just don't register anymore. I mean the violence and anger and bad mouthing people. It seems not only pedestrian but also mundane now. This has led me to think about all the violent video games and action/horror movie which show blood and gore to the maximum. We are so well conditioned to all the unpleasantness and death that the suffering in real life just does not register well into our conscience. I wonder why though.

Mother Theresa once said that she cannot see the suffering of the millions of people in the world but of the people she sees around her at an individual level. If that is true about the human nature, it would be sad indeed; as it would mean that every person needs to suffer each kind of tragedy on a personal level to really evoke any emotion in them. That would make the already suffering world truly unbearable.

I think true horror or terror in a situation is when the threat persists. Everyone can fight and counteract the demons one can see and confront. How can one fight that which is invisible? For example you can fight a direct threat or comment, but how do you fight a rumor? That will be one's downfall in time and also one's undoing.

As I said before the allure and disgust registers deepest with the most subtle provocations. Humans are intelligent beings. Even the dumbest one, given the time, follows the same path of metal destruction; if only given a mere hint of threat. Maybe I am alone in thinking that subtle is good. It also allows you to understand the impact of the more severe possibilities in life (both good and bad) in a better relief. But I think the television people think that life is banal and they are exciting. How wrong can one get? I believe that every one has to create their own subtleties and drama in the same time slot.

On a side track I think that is also the problem with our horror industry. They either need to commit to blood and gore or the undying indirect threats. They unfortunately commit to neither! And the commercial breaks...............Nothing kills pain and death and everything scary like an "idea jo badal de zindagi"!!!