Violence

Ok, excellent lecture, kicking it off with a complimation of video game head shots, booooomm, smashh, splaatt, blood everywhere bla bla bla, you know the rest. but everyone loved it, the whole room was cheering and laughing at virtual people getting they're heads blown off, but why? Such graphical violence is a terribly thing to watch happen, or is it? Is it the difference between winning and loosing, the satisfaction of the opposition failing and the other other prevailing with such skill? There a many answers to the question but i think mainly its down to the fact that no one is bothered by this kind of thing anymore, everyone's so acclimatized to death these days a few head shots mean nothing.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odsCfqywDSk

 
But has it always been this was? Has violence just turned up? I'm afraid not, an example of this was a 1976 game called death race which shocked society with the thought of people running each other over, since then it has become a growing and more acclimatized subject, progressing onto games like doom, causing great controversy as it was the hole grail figuratively speaking to one of the Columbine killer teens. 


So who's to blame, script writers, directors, game developers, actors? or our self's? I think its consumerism, i think it most defiantly followed the lines of " the customers always right, even if they're wrong".