I fucking love violence, don't get me wrong. But sometimes I wonder if all the violence in films and videogames is just saturating our brains, perhaps to make the population more willing to tolerate violence committed by government, but perhaps merely because violence sells.
There's a very obvious dissonance regarding America's acceptance of violence but disgust of nudity, which is partially what leads me to believe that public opinion is manufactured by PR groups and information soldiers. I think this rings as a conspiracy theory but I don't shy away from possibilities because they fall into the definition of conspiracy. I only shy away from ideas that lack support. The evidence that social opinion is influenced by particular PR firms and information soldiers is well documented. However the work of PR firms has been to make brand names look good in spite of unethical practices, and the information soldiers have mostly worked in other countries to win the hearts and minds of occupied populations. It's a bit of a stretch to claim violence is a tool by propaganda experts to make us more tolerant of violence, especially because Occam's Razor suggests that companies are following the bottom line, and violence apparently generates the most profit. Most in the industry are not intelligent enough to realize it's not actually violence that people crave.
But it still leaves me with the question as to why the FCC and other shot-calling forces are more likely to greenlight violence than nudity. People definitely crave sex at least as much as violence. Is it because society has become more open to violence than sex? And if so, how did that opinion emerge? I'm left to think that some tampering of public opinion has occurred for the sake of violence. What do you think?