Growing up, I was constantly told that Marilyn Manson was "devil music" (its not) and I wasn't allowed to watch The Simpsons, Roseanne, etc b/c it was "bad"
As I became a teenager, the Columbine shootings happened, as did the OKC bombing, and 9/11.
The media tried to portray a lot of this as a result of "violent video games, songs (Manson), movies, etc"
That always bugged me, because I knew a lot of people who were interested in those forms of media and they weren't the slightest bit violent.
Now as an adult, I have a clarity that makes me even more unsure of the reactions I got as a teen.
As a teenager, music like Marilyn Manson's was popular because he was expressing through song what many of us felt. The vast majority of us didn't act on it, it was merely an outward expression of the emotions we were already dealing with.
We were lambasted for having turbulent teenage emotions that we DIDN'T ACT ON!!!
Today, many of those same adults who blasted us for using media as a form of expressing and feeling our emotions are the same ones who religiously watch/watched Breaking Bad or Sons of Anarchy.
There is no difference between the two.
You have intense emotional feelings that you can't act upon, seeing (hearing) them acted out is a release for you, a way for you to cope without hurting others.
Yet somehow Breaking Bad is OK, but Manson isn't. Can you explain that to me?
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