With all this violence in the world today it’s impossible to not ask yourself what is making this happen. Is it all the violent video game or movies or is it just because we hear about it more due to mass media? I tend to think that it is because we hear about almost every violent thing that happens in the world as soon as it happens, which could make you feel like you are surrounded in violence. I don’t think that humans are any more violent then we were before, but I do think that we are more scared then we have ever been. I think instead of violent movies and video games making us more violent I think it has made us more scared of it. I think this is due to people seeing things on movies and video games that would be the worst thing that could happen in a situation so it makes us fear the worst because we’ve seen the worst even if it is fake. I know I’m not the only one that uses what they see in movies to make choices sometimes if I have no other experience, but it’s not because I think that its right but because it’s all that pops into my head first. Movies are so much more relatable then they used to be, movies are now almost so realistic that it makes you feel like you are watching real life.

After watching this week’s screening, it got me thinking about how people react to a bad situation and in particular the COVID-19 pandemic. I made me ask “would the COVID pandemic of been more controllable if people didn’t always fear the worst?” What I mean by that does the bad situations depicted in movies and video games make use fear the absolute worst case when things like sicknesses and wars? They could be connected, because when the news hit the USA that COVID-19 had started to pop up in the United States almost everyone ran to the stores to get everything they could just like every post-apocalyptic movie ever seen. Going to the stores were kind of scary to see empty shelves and not being able to get what you want. Wouldn’t have been so much easier if everyone remanded calm and just bought what we needed there would have been no shortages. I’m not saying the pandemic wasn’t scary but if we didn’t have that fear surrounding us at all times. On the other hand, there is a possibility that the panic came from our need to follow one another due to human nature which was shown in the Stanford prison experiment. Which one seems more possible to you? Why do you think Humans are seeming so violent is it because we are hearing about it more or is it because we are influenced by violence in movies and video games?