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How many of your children have seen Charlie Kerk’s assassination on their phones? Have they searched for that, or are their summaries not announced? If they never hear about Kerk before they watched his human killing, how do they understand what they saw? Is the terrible image – I will not describe it, because you may have already seen it – imagine itself in their memories?
I ask because I have two young children and spend most of my time throughout other parents. In the days after Kirk’s death videos on social media, I realized that most children with phones, as much as I can say, see at least one version unarmed. This was not likely the first annoying video that these children faced, of course, nor the first act of political violence that appeared on their summaries. These children themselves, between the ages of 11 and eighteen, saw the president’s ear bleeding and dozens, and perhaps even hundreds of trauma that cannot be understood in Gaza. How will these scenes already fall into their minds and can join something similar to history?
Widely dispersed images and videos – the things we all see – are the closest thing we have to a collective and democratic history, but the links between memories and related images wear thin and become increasingly reliable. For children’s children, these pictures include people standing and pointing in the direction of gunshots in a hotel in Memphis, explosive heads, and the documentary of the crowds in Woodstock, the girl in the photo in Vietnam, the corpses in Junstown, etc. As breastfeeding progress, these pictures became slightly excreted from their place in a timely manner, and more stimulating a feeling of rebellion and ChangingOr whatever. I am sure that many members of this generation will tell you that they saw Kennedy shooting on the TV on the air, and they will describe the terrible movement of his head, without realizing that what they were describing was the movie Zabroder, which was first broadcast to the audience in 1975, after more than a decade that Kennedy wandered through Daily Balza. Perhaps they will also tell you that they have seen my Lai massacre – they may have good, but perhaps the image they remember is from the abstract girl practicing from the Nabal attack in TRảng Bàng.
Jelly, my age, forty-five years old, has grew up with much fewer general images of violence. One of the texts that I dealt with and referred to before in the column is Jean Bodrryard.The Gulf War did not happen“Whoever argues that the desert storm’s operation was a conflict designed specifically for a new media scene in which most people will follow the war on the cable news. The Americans saw the Patriot missiles lighting up the sky of the night, but in contrast Farmed: The shaky shots of the burning Davidian complex, in Waku;
So this is a series of questions:
If exposure to violence changes a generation of children, how can the loyalists differ from my generation – and how will my children, who will be exposed to greater evidence of political violence more than me, are different from me?
Is the effect of seeing pictures of violence with carefully selected through evening news or newspapers different from those caused by the chaos of violent images that children see today through their phones?
If we agree that history is formed through these images, what does history look when there are thousands of different options, camera corners, interpretations, and even fake? How do we understand the massacre in the state of you if that day happens? How will you look? What happens when, instead of all seeing a picture of a young woman in shock and mourning for a body, we see hundreds of mobile phones videos that take terror while detecting in actual time?
I have no satisfactory answers to these questions, and I do not have a particularly strong opinion on whether children are He should See these scenes or not. There were years of studies on the effects of violence on television and in video games on the minds of young people, and some authors suggested that they were eliminating children and may lead to copies. I was always skeptical of these allegations, especially the way it was invoked during that emotional period after a tragedy, when people search for someone or something they blame. Of course, no such studies do not explain completely why some children can watch Goer or play violent video games without any problems, and it claims that other children are turning into killers because of them.