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Trauma-based messages, such as political posturing, and hyper-violent entertainment are increasingly popular. Their ultimate effects include keeping the citizens in line based on fear and rewarding us with consumer goods while alienating us from ourselves and each other. These messages are also suitable for masquerading as counter-cultural and rebellious, even though they are created by governments and corporations. There are many ways in which our natural tendencies toward empathy are counteracted by political and cultural forces interested in subverting us.

I find the political messages quite tame compared to the ones labeled as "entertainment". Perhaps this is because so many of my friends seem to enjoy this type of desensitization, and many of my friends are cultural producers as well as consumers. Endlessly dead-end discussions regarding censorship and free-expression ensue when these points are raised. This demonstrates the great power of trauma-based entertainment and proves how well it desensitizes and subverts the ethical sense of even so-called "intelligent" individuals.

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