CKY - Channel Kill YourselfFuror's examination of television's trend towards the morbid and perverse and the Freudian death instinct such trends represent. A log of my average day of television for Wednesday, February 7th, 2007: For about a year or two now, I've noticed that every time I watch TV, I see something unbelievably life-negating. Far from complaining about rising curseword count or 3/4-naked girlies, I am having a real problem digesting morbid material that we too often take for granted (see also this discussion ). I like to think of such content as falling under the 'death instinct' as opposed to 'life instinct' images and concerns, such as beauty, positivity, cooperation, community, dignity, etc. After a especially discordant stretch of seeing things I just don't want to see, I figured I would keep a short-lived log of the incidences and types of overt death-instinct content I find, mostly consisting of the following: |
Latest CommentsFuror Thompsonicus - January 7, 2009 Tekken 6: Old Friends, New Hoopla Even though it's just a review of the plot, you did a good job presenting the epically ridiculous backstory of our beloved Tekken. Trying to remember what I thought of the Tekken anime movie...they made a few interesting changes, but it was pretty forgettable. Schweitzer - January 6, 2009 Comic Classics: "Pride and Prejudice" Hmmm... Somehow PBS stretched that out to 300 minutes? Must be a lot of fluff. Furor Thompsonicus - January 4, 2009 Comic Classics: "Pride and Prejudice" And Furor never Painted again. Nicely done. unspeakable - January 4, 2009 Comic Classics: "Pride and Prejudice" If only Austin was more like this, we might not have ever had that whole Feminine Victorian Literature debacle. Ozmodeus - January 4, 2009 Comic Classics: "Pride and Prejudice" This is even better than Cliff's Notes! Latest Posts
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