Art imitating life or life imitating Art.......

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You know, I am so sick of hearing every now and then that movies are such a bad influence, that rap songs make us violent and that GTA or any other violent video games, turns us into criminals. Well, to those people who say such things, I would like to point out, that these movies, these songs and these games, are actually not influential but inspired, they are inspired by real life. Let me be more specific, you know, I was watching this show of O'Reilly on Oprah, now I don't care about all of the political issues that they talked about, I prefer not to get into that stuff, because I don't know much about it, but he did say something, that I think I have good authority to speak about, and that's this. He mentioned that his generation were the ones who listened to motown and watched real nice non-violent shows, and now horror and slasher movies, and rap songs are the problems of this whole generation. When in fact, the main problems are created by, oh, what a surprise, guys from his generation. It's so easy to blame the media for everything. Yet, these movies, these songs and even yes, these video games, all tell the true stories of human life. I mean Jack the ripper was pretty much around before all those serial killer movies were made. The Texas chainsaw massacre might be a really gory movie, but it's only after the real life event happened that the movie was made, I mean it didn't seem like he watched a lot of TV, so what would make him do something like that? Rap songs only describe in words the truth of what goes on and around in the lives of these rappers. People in real life have done so much worse, and hurt other people in so many ways that are too horrifying and yet we still think that it's movies that influence that. People think criminals are born because of playing video games, well, I play the most violent video games and I've never killed anyone, or stolen a car or anything like that. I think that people are more comfortable in doing atrocious acts, yet they are uncomfortable when someone talks about these atrocious acts in movies or in rap songs. Why be such a hypocrite? I personally believe that movies are derived from life, and not an influence to any immoral or horrifying act, and people just need to understand that. What do you think about this, do you think that movies or songs or games influence people into being bad, or are these movies, songs and games are just a depiction of what is actually happening around us already, and are just becoming more truthful in showing us the reality of some of our world?