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Originally posted by ReginaPhalange
They have the same argument for violent video games, pop stars like Miley and Bieber being bad role models, cheap fast food being the reason why everyone is fat, it's such ********. People need to stop blaming others and start taking responsibility for themselves.
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It isn't that easy and that simple. Not everyone has the cognitive ability to disassociate what their experience should be from what they are shown especially when POWERFUL psychological techniques are in use by massive media companies . IN FACT, the programming is designed to impair their perceptions of their experience.
These media companies enlist the best psychologists money can buy and ensure that their programming is addictive and appealing to the masses. It has it's effects on some youth.
Even social media, you are constantly seeing the best parts of people's lives, all day long, because those are the parts they share. It is easy to develop your own perception of someone's life because of what they share online. Many think that some other person's life is so much better than their own just because of what they see in pictures and status updates. It's clear that what he saw made him believe that this should be his experience, coupled with his his already active subconscious beliefs of privilege, and perhaps mental issues (which may or may not be uncommon). I can imagine how it could develop into something self-destructive.