I was watching a video game that shocked me.
Here's the premise. You start the game, a man on a wagon. You don't know where you are, where you are going or who you are with. The others are speaking. You are listening, but you don't know for what clue. You're a prisoner. You're forced off the wagon, and inspected. You don't know what the outcome will be, but it's desperate. Then there is fire, fighting, an escape. You run, you take weapons off dead people, maybe their armor if you like it better. You swim with your hatchet on your back. You're in survival mode. You can take the wings off a butterfly. (But why would you?) Because it may be part of a magic potion. Everything in this world is FOR you. You need to survive. The times are desperate. You don't know who you can trust, and anyone else is a threat.
The entitlement is a relative of "Manifest Destiny". It is my destiny to take everything for me, and kill who I need to get it. To leave the butterfly dead, the land burned, is not my problem, I'm on the run.
The scary thing for me, is we do live on the run, with cortisol pumping through us. Can we physiolgically differentiate between make believe and real life. In real life, will we act with entitlement because we are practiced and trained to do so.
Sex, Drugs, violence sells. Well...... maybe we should have a conscience and not make it to make money. Maybe we should think about the children we are raising, and hold their well-being as the most important. Raping and pillaging the land isn't a far cry, from those willing to fill the minds of youth with "what sells" so they can make a buck, totally disregarding the life behind the dollar.
I love what Colin Stokes has to say about "How movies teach manhood". He says we need movies that are role models for boys on Ted Talks. Men that protect their sisters and collaborate with others; instead of fighting and going it alone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueOqYebVhtc
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