Guiding light

Teenagers are getting violent in America and when someone dies it becomes news in America. But lately I watched a few teenager based movies and all the stories described teenagers as extremely violent. In fact the cool kids are violent and the geeks when they learn violence become cool. Movies about families are quite violent too. A step parent or an adopted kid is usually the embodiment of evil. There rarely is a movie where a poor orphan kid is quite a decent soul. Movies about newly married couples are graphically violent where one spouse is trying to kill the other. And these things play on TV all day. No one raises an eyebrow about it. So all feelings are kind of numbed in this society except violence. Physical pain is real and perhaps in an industrialized society the only pain that is comprehensible.