Bowling for Colombine. I don’t care for Michael Moore. He’s always come across as a bloated, over opinionated asshole. Nothing wrong with that, well except for the bloated and asshole part. Still, he knows how to make a documentary entertaining and interesting. He aslo asks some really good questions. Really, how can a gun-loving country like Canada have such a dramatic difference in gun-related homicide? I mean there’s a huge difference in population, but the States still have a problem. And this is where I definitely agree with Moore. Our media inflicts fear and paronoia, and it has a negative impact on our society. We need news, but along with every negative thing they broadcast, there’s a whole lot of good out there that is newsworthy. Many people eat what the media gives us, just as they would the meat and patatoes off their plate.
November 19, 2008 at 5:36 pm |
Maybe, in this case, instead of gun control, the better solution would be media control. Since we can basically trace everything back to the media influencing people, maybe there should be restrictions on that. But wouldn’t that violate the ‘freedom of speech’ clause in the constiution just as gun control violates the ‘right to bare arms’ clause. Maybe America jsut needs a complete makeover, from head to toe, starting in the begining–this time we could use a little 20/20 hindsight, and learn from out mistakes. I’m not saying we shoudl destroy everyting, but just rethink things starting from the begining.