I asked this 9 year old, short braids-wearing little sister who happened to have watched Squid game while I had not yet: <\/p>\n
\u201cDid you like it?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n She answered, looking into the void, kind of distressed, \u201cNO! I didn\u2019t like it, it\u2019s too violent.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Now that I\u2019ve watched it, I get why she answered like that.<\/p>\n Ultra-violence or violence aesthetic really started in the 90s. Entertainment could be gore or gross before, but the explosion of violence, the normalization of sadism and most brutal aspects of humanity really happened in 90s entertainment.<\/p>\n And then it was just kind of normal. Which means that younger generations grew up on the new ultraviolent normal. Which might have created the mid 2000s Emo culture, as a reaction to constant brutality in entertainment.<\/p>\n Squid game, where people get killed failing at school games, was last fall\u2019s worldwide icon. Ultra-violence is basic pop culture now. Thanks to our collective brains being destroyed by police brutality videos, thousands of headshots in more and more realistic games, school shootings, World Star, 4Chan and so forth, for 20 years, we just take it all in. We\u2019re used to it. Almost a million dead from COVID in the US? LMFAOOO<\/p>\n I want to reverse that, in a way. The hunting and preying culture needs to stop. I so want to see people fancying love and laughs. That shit is brutally awesome. I\u2019m sure this young girl would agree. Ultra-violence is part of the world but it\u2019s not like it\u2019s super cool or that we need more of it\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I asked this 9 year old, short braids-wearing little sister who happened to have watched Squid game while I had not yet: \u201cDid you like it?\u201d She answered, looking into the void, kind of distressed, \u201cNO! I didn\u2019t like it, it\u2019s too violent.\u201d Now that I\u2019ve watched it, I get why she answered like that. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3774,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions\/3774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}