ADVENT OF TELEVISION AND INCREASING VIOLENCE

 

The 12 year old boy who was shot and killed by the police in United States from the video clips showed was holding a toy gun that look very real,people called the police who shot him at the park. people learnt through immitation,picking up the behaviour pattens they see around them,through a process called  CONDITIONING.,in which rewards and punishments some obvious,some subtle.These behaviour patten, often start from home,then progressively built up as strong influence from society comes into play..

Psychologist Leonard Eron carried out an experiment of a group of 875 children living in rural district of New York state over a long period of time.He studied first hand effect of television aggression on violent tendencies as they become young adults.The amount of time spent on violent films,determines the level of aggressiveness of the person as an adult.The Semai people of central Malaya,who are not exposed to television at all are very gentle people so said Anthropologist Robert Dentan,who spent a year living with them.

American rise to violence started from all the so called 'cowboys' films like 'THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON' with Errol Flynn who played the role of General Custer 'LONE STAR TRAIL' 'FIVE BOLD WOMEN' 'SOME WHERE IN SONORA' 'BRONCHO TWISTER' etc.One of my brother in laws love watching the film 'FIRST BLOOD' so much that he named his son 'RAMBO'.Today the 18 year old boy is a criminal, moving from soft crime to hard ones.

Italians then started their Mafians films that triggered the highest level of violence,where nothing is left to the imagination, the films are bloody,the acceptance to the public ,made things terrible for growing impressionable young generation.
Bottom line,these violence in the name of entertainment on television and now internets has fueled many robbery,kidnapping,cannibalism,serial killing,gang membership;satanic praticses,ritual killings,drug taking etc.Every country is now caught up,there is no hidding place.Religious extremism had now taken violence to a frenzy levels, since the advent of televangelisn.American schools had become very scary places,where students and staff could be guy down by angry drug fuelled youths.All effects of over watching of violent movies.From what is seen right now,every one watches movies, whether rated 18 or not.This days parents dont care.Kids are becoming very strong willed,parents are too busy, to take note.Children are left on their owns,to seek whatever makes them happy.



In our own country,the best selling movies are RITUAL films,main actors,always meet voodoo witch doctors who will ask for human heads,breasts,private parts or new born infants to prepare get rich fast medicine, whereby a dirty poor person turns into a billionarie over night.what With high level of uneducated people, who often believe everything seen on the televison,ritual killings,cult membership,gangsterism,in real life becomes the order of the day,witch doctors start making neat cash.  People had disappeared never to be seen ever.people had never asked themselves why voodoo doctors are always dirty poor,always live in the slums,if truely they can make one rich after pounding a new born child into mince meat for some satan.Then in comes CULT films,now most university students belong to one cult group or the others ,they carry out robbery and kidnapping to fuel their high profile living.Parents now dont want to send their children to Nigerian universities, for fears of their kids becoming cult members.Parents perfer to send their kids to Ghana or Uk universities.At the end of the day,we are all paying the price for these movies,when you can not move around on foot,jog in the parks or streets,take walks,or even sleep with two eyes closed.