No more of this make-believe stuff for us. We want the real thing. And with with the advent and proliferation of home video cameras, we have arrived. We no longer have to watch make-believe violence. It s real.
Parental discretion is advised.
And, in large numbers, we watch. We seem to have an insatiable appetite for this stuff. It s just a sign of the times. But there is an irony to it all. While lots of people these days seem to want to live on the edge and push limits, there also seems to be a simultaneous desire to deflect responsibility when things go wrong.