A lot of things only work out because of economies of scale. For example, some things, such as movies, need mass production in order to make profit. If movies weren’t mass produced, they wouldn’t be able to make enough money to continue making more movies. Weird how we need large quantities of things in order to have them work out for profit.
Maybe it really is “fear” that makes us more violent (as suggested my Michael Moore.) I always watch Michael Moore with a critical point of view, otherwise i’ll be doomed to far left manipulation, but, i actually agreed with him on this. I think i agree that American media often imposes FEAR to their audience (too often!). Personally, i’ve developed a phobia of watching the news.. i know that if i watch i’ll end up seeing murders, kidnappings, etc… and it started making me quite paranoid… so, in order to solve this problem, i stopped watching altogether.
I didn’t realize that the print press also affected the loss of face-to-face communication. I’ve always just assumed that more modern things, such as texting, iming, emailing, online social networks, etc. contributed to our lack of communication skills (specifically face-to-face)… but really.. the printing press also had an effect on that. By printing things on paper rather than distributing the story/news/concept/etc., verbally, we lost a bit of face-to-face communication.
