Critical thinking is necessary to combat the negative effects of media consumption.
This is a publication based on the suggested topic proposed in the Hive Learners community through their discord, which on this occasion is "Glorifying Crime".
Today I come to talk to you about a topic that is very interesting and that is glorifying the crime. Today we live in times in which society likes to consume things quickly, as I have already mentioned in other publications, those dopamine releases from short videos make people stupid and want to obtain immediate rewards, or immediate satisfaction for everything they see. And the problem with this is that the large television film and media companies have learned to develop ways to capitalize more on users through this type of junk or garbage content, so to speak, and they simply show us , they sell us fictions to attract a greater number of advertisers. That is their business, it is what they are obviously looking for, through morbidity, the forbidden nature of sex, crime, everything illegal, they capture the attention of a large amount of the public. The problem with this is that these functional idiots take as true everything they see in these series and in these movies, which are created precisely to capture attention, to make noise. We have the case or recent examples such as Breaking Bad, which is a series to capture attention, and others that do not deal with crimes but that also attract attention, as an example we have the fact that Disney includes black characters in its productions, as is the case of the little mermaid, Ariel, which caused many controversies. The point with all this and speaking of crime, is that glorifying it creates a great controversy and that is what sells, for that reason these big capitalists use it as a way to fill their coffers and make more money. Personally, I believe that criminal activities should be shown as they are carried out, because this enriches society, allows them to explore how far human minds can go and helps to study people's behavior. Of course, based on this we can predict what path and direction a country or society will take, this is very interesting and surely many psychiatrists and psychologists will find it fascinating (right @enraizar? 😂 ). From that point of view I believe that it should be allowed and that it enriches society. Now, as I have been talking in comments on other posts by my colleagues about this topic, the problem here is educational, people must have a complete and comprehensive education to know how to differentiate between these topics where they glorify crime, like the movie the joker, as a suicide squad, where these criminals who, being anti-heroes, play the role of heroes are glorified. And the problem I find with this is with these new generations of stupid people who believe that it is cool, that it is trending, that it is cool, to be like these criminals. Such is the case of Walter White in Breaking Bad or Harley Quinn in suicide squad, or any of the other crime movie cases, like in the joker. These types of films that glorify crime do harm to the minds of young people and adults who believe that this is a way to have an easy life, and in this sense romanticizing crime and glorifying it ends up being a crime for its own sake. itself... This is combated with education, knowing that these are Hollywood productions, that they are only fictions created for entertainment and that in the event that they are documentaries presented as a document to enrich knowledge, people will be able to have a sufficiently defined judgment to realize that they should not follow those steps, and if it is a fairly serious documentary (which there are, we have for example all the documentaries that have been made about the Cecot (terrorism confinement center) which is the President Bukele's special prison in El Salvador, showing the harsh reality and destiny that all these criminals have, the average citizen, the common citizen is going to know that glorifying crime is not going to give him good results and that he is surely going to end up behind prison bars for life, going through many difficulties, without benefits and leading a shitty life. I think we have to learn to separate reality from fiction, I wouldn't stop them from producing and making films that glorify crime, because at the end of the day this is art and should not be censored, but it should be regulated, But those are very different things, having regulations for this type of films or having to censor them, or preventing films from being made that glorify crime, because the problem is with those who watch the film and not with those who make them. The problem is the consumer and the interpretation they give to the film, it is their task to be educated enough to know that glorifying crime is simply a fiction and is not the best for their life. We need more critical thinking and fewer videos, less stupid people who watch 15-second videos and believe everything they are shown there. That's my conclusion for today's post. This is my black cat "manclar", this account is to honor his dead (it happened years ago). Thumbnail image maded using Bing AI and edited with Canva.com
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