Bleh

Do you have a particular song or movie that you just really love? If you do, have you ever considered the kind of music you listen to or the movies you watch influence the decisions you make about almost everything? This may be really obvious, but a lot of people underestimate it: It’s the power of the media. Media is very powerful and extremely influential. And as teenagers, our minds are a lot more absorbent to the things we see and hear around us. That’s why I think media should be censored. Probably the most common example of the influence of media on teenagers is the Columbine shooting. There are a lot of theories about how the shooting was somewhat inspired or influenced by the movie, The Matrix. There are a lot of reasons people use to support their theories, like, the killers were wearing the same jackets that were worn in the movie. They were using the same guns; they were acting out scenes from the movie. Also, the singer, Marilyn Manson, who is a kind of dark, Goth singer, has been targeted as an influence in the shooting. Considering that the killers listened to his music and others things like it. 

Movies and music lyrics, especially nowadays, promotes violence and also tolerance to violence. Bands like, Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath, project and image of “horror” and violence in their shows and their songs. For example, the band Alice Cooper, every night during his shows, would “execute” himself using a guillotine. Rigged of course. There are obviously ways to do that. But that can still be very traumatizing experience for some people. Another example, Black Sabbath, has a song about suicide. And I don’t know this for sure, but I wouldn’t be surprised is somewhere, some kind of depressed kid committed suicide as a result of that song. Because of all these contributing factors, people don’t react to violence in the world because they see and hear it so much in the media. Excessive exposure makes you more tolerant. The more you’re exposed to the...