It is sunday night... and well today I feel a little distressed. Last weekend I had the excitement of reading two electronic books... I keep myself on the urban fantasy romance and all that to distract myself from university's life but I am getting to that part of the semester where I become terrified by the very little we have left. It is actually a relief but since I cannot actually make myself work on academic subjects during weekends my spam for what I need to work on get shorter and shorter. I went back to training during saturdays which even if it eats half my day it really brings me some peace of mind; which, before you guess, I totally appreciate since I get really tense and on the "all you can eat" program.
Speaking of programs there is this tv series I now watch on my computer: "criminal minds". Since I finish my Dharma and Greg dvd's this has been the replacement. Thomas Gibson also stars on this series, the neat personaly characters really go with this guy. From corporate lawyer to FBI agent... anyway, I like the series. I like the fact that you can try to understand how this horrible things happen so you can help victims. I do not enjoy so much that there is the need to rationalize all the cruelty of criminals, because by doing so most people creates a distance between what is happening in the screen adn what they live with and what many people has a hard time to accept is that all those horrible things are also out there somewhere and we really do nothing about it. We do not even care about our neighbours anymore. There is no time. There is always job to do or better things to occupy ourselves. We do not mind that thousands of people get hurt everyday... we are so accustomed to violence which terrifies me because it makes me feel that the more accustomed to these things we get the more violent crimes will get. The more cruelty and torture and suffering we see the more it is neeed to hit a cord.
We should be terrified that as humans we are able to inflict so much pain on other without actually giving a damn. I always think about what some of teh agents in that series do that is what if we are all capable of commiting such horrible acts adn we are not really sure how we keep away that sort of behaviour? What will make someone snap in such way that he stops caring for others but this violence that is killing us all somehow, without we even realize?

I do not believe in guns or in violence but that does not stop me form watching the series that potrays both in a, sometimes, very gruesome way. I was reading the other time a kind of historical-phylosophical book that elaborated on the Roman Empire, highlighting that one of the purposes of the large investment emperors did on keeping gladiators and all those games in the Colosseum was to keep their subjects in contact with such amount of violence and directed to certain kinds of behaviours that people would largely get accustomed to that into their everyday life and also be ok we the extensive violence the Empire was not only exposed to but, and mostly, inflicted to others. Violent entertainment is a tool, sometimes even a very powerful political tool and we should not allowed ourselves to stop thinking about that.