- If you were to ask a consumer of popular entertainment, be it comics, Stephen King, professional wrestling, or top 40 popular music, to explain the worth of what he is consuming, he or she will probably tell you “I know it’s junk, but who cares? I like it.” Such popular entertainment makes no plea to be educational, nor moral in any self-conscious way. As Jules Feiffer has written of comic books, “Junk, like the drunk at the wedding, can get away with doing or saying anything because, by its very appearance, it is already in disgrace. It has no one’s respect to lose; no image to endanger.” The very senselessness and vulgarity of such entertainment has made it not just unattractive for many to view, but unimportant for critics to study. A demand to censor violence in popular culture is long gone.

- Because of the rise in electronic media, the increase in violence seen in Western culture in the past few decades has been exponential. The adjective often used to describe the violence seen in broadcast media of all sorts is “gratuitous”. This

- A second aspect of the impact of violence is the mental suffering that may accompany violent acts, and can result in psychological trauma. At first this suffering may be associated with feeling stunned, terrified, and very angry. Hyper-vigilance, disturbed sleep, and intrusive memories of the event often accompany this, all symptoms of a medical condition known as Acute Stress Disorder. If this is left untreated, it can evolve into Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Untreated PTSD will last until death.

II. Substance Abuse- Some possible indicators of this would be poor motor coordination, slurred speech, shallow breathing, glazed eyes, dilated pupils, decreased alertness, drowsiness, loss of appetite, disturbed sleep, depression, hostility, irritability, and elation. The kids may also wear things like dark glasses, binkis, and long sleeve shirts even in warm weather. They may also have drug paraphernalia like pipes, rolling papers, or razor blades.

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