Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Death or Life
When I offer the word death, what comes to mind? Sadness, doom, despair, other such pessimistic words? Though I pose the question, why is death such a negative tone. Although I think for now, society is moving away from this negative outlook. While it still is negative, many things have changed from back then. If you look closely you'll notice that death is much openly received. Death back in the old days, was always more brutal, that's the kind of society we were. Think back to any wars back to world war 2 or before. They were brutal. The brutality now is nothing compared to back then. In today's society death is much more trivial, if any of you in STAC remember watching Frankenstein, you might recall the high age rating on the movie yet we never really saw anything brutal or gruesome. Death was much more negative back then, now our perception of death is much more lighthearted and it takes much more to scare people. Horror films now a days, offer brutality and torture as the way to go. Back then, simple death could make anyone scream. While death has taken a turn toward being lighthearted, because of history it's still associated with gloomy words. People are afraid of dying early, they fear that they have more left in their life. While we will truly never know if that is the case. I think, when the time right, it's time, maybe it's just me but death should not take such a dark tone. We've integrated notions of death and occult symbolism into our society in various bands and other works of art. While it may not be the right thing to go on a mass suicide revelation type event, people still need to understand that maybe in certain situations accepting death is the right thing to do. Instead of fighting it.
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I agree with you when you say that death is becoming more incorporated into our society than it ever was before. However, I'm not sure that accepting death is the right thing to do in our society. Quite the opposite, in fact - I think our society would do well to remember the horrors of the world war, and the sheer brutality that death posed. In America in the thirties, when the movie came out, the horrors of the first World War were fresh in everyone's minds. You know where it wasn't as fresh? In Germany, where the Nazis were starting their rise to power, fueled by the Great Depression. By the end of the thirties, eighty-five percent of Germany had forgotten that the Great War had ever even occurred, and were rearing to go fight some Brits. That led to the bloodiest conflict in human history. Riddle me this - if we've forgotten the horrors of D-Day, the concentration and prison camps, the experiments performed on living people, and the waves of butcher and rape that spread across Russia and China, what does that say about us as a society? More importantly, where does that hint we're headed?
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