On the Daily Telegraph site the jerky footage of a bloodied Gaddafi being roughed up by his captors is preceded (sponsored) by an advertisement for a car.
I really worry about where we're going with this. This week we've had this footage, and footage of YueYue in China being run over twice. Are we really this depraved?
Nineteen people apparently walked/rode past/over that child. Nineteen. On the Mail's website they have to edit the footage down, presumably because Mail readers can't maintain the attention span necessary to watch the original, and just want the edited highlights, where vehicles roll over her limbs / pelvis.
Apparently the problem is, if you kill someone you have to pay for their funeral costs. If you wound someone, you have to pay for their treatment for the rest of their life. And judges are known for assuming that whoever brings a wounded person in must have done so because they were the party who wounded them (there was a famous case where the good samaritan who brought in a wounded old lady was made to pay for her treatment). So I don't think it's brutalisation so much as people thinking "shit, if I pick this kid up, my own family will be poor for the rest of my life..."
China is such a very different society. I once proposed to myself that I would make a study of Chinese culture and history- and then I lost my nerve...
It is a richly rewarding field of study. I've dipped into ancient Chinese history and culture off-and-on for the past decade. One of the first hurdles is overcoming the official Chinese interpretation of their ancient history. After that, it gets challenging.
The media over here have this strange concept that, if it's taking place in a distant country, then it's acceptable to show horrific violence in very graphic detail. I can't remember which tabloid it was in a few years back (the Express?) that showed a close up photograph of a severed head, accompanied by "we have to show the horror of war" type justifications.
I wonder what the British Board of Film Classification would think. Seems people are more worried about sex, bad language and fake violence than watching somebody die. Nissan probably has no idea that they are linked in this way.
I don't know how these thing work, but if I were in charge of Nissan's advertising I'd want to have someone keeping an eye on the news clips my product was being linked with.
I also saw the footage of them rolling his corpse on the ground, to deafening shouts of, "Allahu akbar". Apparently, there's some of his former "rats" and "cockroaches" dragging his body as well.
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These things are essentially snuff movies.
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How did all those people come to be so brutalised?
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It would of course be unforgivable to show pictures of dead British soldiers.
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I also saw the footage of them rolling his corpse on the ground, to deafening shouts of, "Allahu akbar". Apparently, there's some of his former "rats" and "cockroaches" dragging his body as well.
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