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I had someone tell me recently about a television program that represented to them an ideal of human behavior. I thought to myself, "Whoa, that is so dysfunctional." Then I said, "Television, movies, etc. are all dramatized similes of a perceived event when dramatized loses its true meaning."
We as a society have fallen into a false perspective that what we see on television or on movie screens is real, reality. We spend long discussions with our fellow humans on how that movie meant this type of social commentary or some other type of life situation and so on when in reality it was not a social comment at all but the comment and perception of a writer who wrote the script based, loosely so very loosely, on a true event or situation. It comes no where near the truth of life.
These types of things make us feel good and promote a more self-righteous type of thinking and that ain't reality. Not from where I sit.
I express it often, "Television, movies and other dramatized stories are just that, stories. They are called fiction for a reason. They are simply, "Entertainment." There is a huge divide between "Entertainment" and "Reality."
This raises some issues for those who study, practice and hope to apply proper self-defense martial arts in the "Real world." We are so consumed by the media presentations, even the news is dramatized to get ratings, we have bought them as "Reality."
We then make decisions about our lives, or worse about others lives, when we are exposed to cell phone video's concerning self-defense. Such video's are one dimensional in nature and seldom, if ever, provide us the full and complete story when it comes to violence and self-defense. Then there is the commentary and story headings presented that are biased toward a particular perception of the author that influence how one sees and perceives the actual content.
In a nutshell remember that we are an society that is built on television, movies and other emotionally driven social media sources that seldom take fact and truth into consideration and make all their input from an emotional based view. You just have to understand emotions are not reality and emotions tend to block out truth and fact for our emotional agenda's, i.e., what makes us feel good about ourselves and what makes us feel safe, etc. Another aspect necessary to understand this is most, almost all, violence comes from emotions.
Pride comes from our emotional beliefs.
Honor comes from our emotional beliefs.
Face comes from our emotional beliefs.
The monkey dance, a major player in social violence, is all about emotions. Only when we are able to overcome the monkey and allow our human brains access do we avoid, deescalate and as a last resort - resort to physical manifestations of self-defense.
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