My post was pure poison - because it hits the buried truth.

I didn't get to this point by the grace of God or by chance. I earned my viewpoint after hours of gunshots to the head, kids sliced up by razored fingers, countless badguys falling to their deaths or impaled on sharp objects, countless more relatives of good guys being massacred in their own homes, "heroes" saving the day by putting a bullet in someone's brain or a sword in their heart, countless screaming women being stalked by mass-murderers, children buried alive, women's fresh corpses raped by soldiers, etcetera etcetera...

...all for my "entertainment".

At a certain point, one has to ask oneself if one really enjoys this type of entertainment or if one has been duped by a society into believing such entertainment is "normal" or even "wholesome".

I could no longer lie to myself and pretend it was just "good fun". I realized the films and "entertainment" were not in my best interests.

One merely needs to watch children imitate their celluloid or television heroes to see how the immature human response manifests when confronted with a glorified mass-media "role-model".

Tonight we'll all get to see this same darkness emerge, encouraged under the guise of "good fun". As kids dress up with chainsaws and ski masks or knives sticking through their heads. The little angels and ballerinas are vastly outnumbered by the grim reapers and axe murderers. There's "no fun" in playing a positive role - or at least that's the way many kids are brainwashed.

As for my being more evolved than the "brutish" violent film lovers - I'll wear that shoe if it fits. I suspect I'm not alone out there in no longer enjoying the violence. Unlike the Amish who never experience technology and can't judge the difference in their chosen lifestyle, my epiphany was trial by fire - created by this same entertainment industry.

I refuse to let my consciousness be numbed and calloused by endless faux murder, violence and suffering.

You think I disliked Blade Runner because the artists portrayed a GOP future? Hardly. At the time I saw Blade Runner I was still very much a bleeding heart liberal, ready and awaiting the One World UN-Type Government that would bring about social utopia and peace on Earth. But even then I knew what "disturbing" was when I saw it. And in 1982 Blade Runner was a disturbing film and I left the theatre rather depressed - not uplifted.

I call it like I see it now.

Go ahead & hate me.

;-)