“Hit, smash…buy!” I ran across a program like the funniest Super Bowl ads, called “Funniest Commercials of the Year,” as voted on by the public. I thought I’d take a peek. There were 40 ads. 19 involved destruction, crashing, hurting or being hurt, and other violent behavior. Three more showed mean tricks being played on people. Two others depicted people going overboard–going nuts, basically. (We won’t count the bathroom humor of two of them.) That’s more than half. Obviously, most people–or at least those who vote on these things–think that violence is not only acceptable but funny. They laugh at it around their kids, thus passing the attitude onto the next generation.
Odd thing is, I bet these are the same people who are appalled by murders, riots, muggings, and such, and they may even lecture their kids about fighting and bullying, wondering where on Earth they would have learned such actions.
Okay. Enough on this subject. I’ll climb off my soapbox.