Breitbart is reporting that film critic Armond White is pointing the finger directly at Hollywood for the Aurora Massacre for creating dehumanizing movies with morally dubious antiheroes laying a foundation for a culture that could produce a mass killer:
After this clash of cinema and reality, have we forgotten that culture either dooms or defines us?
….For years now, we’ve all read movie reviews that justify a culture of death and destruction. Can we ever recover from movies’ spiritual decline over the past few decades? Standard praise for “dark,” “wicked,” “twisted,” “subversive,’ “transgressive” dramas or comedies has lowered film culture. Can we continue to pretend this has no effect? That it doesn’t influence the already deranged? That legislated gun control answers a spiritual and aesthetic crisis?
…Most critics today are too “sophisticated” to care about the effect cinema has on the world beyond the box-office. Inured to movie violence, they consider themselves saner than James Holmes; they no longer expect movies to “put the sting back in death” as Pauline Kael once said about Bonnie & Clyde. Hollywood, where is thy sting? In Aurora.
I know I’m not the only person who watched the first half-hour of the torture porn film Hostel and wept for the future of humanity (It was recommended by a friend’s teenage daughter). And what kind of seriously deranged mind comes up with the idea for Human Centipede, much less green-lights it as a film? And how f*cked up are you to be able to psychologically disconnect yourself to the extent that you find these movies entertaining?
From Wikipedia:
Sociopathy is the result of social conditioning which leads to a lack of natural human values. It refers strictly to a social condition where a person knows, yet has been socially conditioned to disregard, the intrinsic human values which are believed to be universal.