[rock music blares]
[engines roar]
Bass Voice: "Street Racing: Monster Truck Edition!"
I can just imagine the commentators on this one. "The number one car is in the lead, with 12 crushed cars; but the number four car isn't far behind, and he has an impressive 25 vehicular homicides to his credit already!"
'Oh, but they would never allow the filming of intentional murders for drama purposes, would they? The police would stop it for sure.' Such is something a naive person might ask. It wouldn't be hard for the producers to find some way to absolve themselves of guilt. "We didn't know he was going to kill people. (We just gave him a truck way too big for the road, put him on a high traffic street, and said whoever makes it to the end first wins a million dollars.)
"And no, the people watching aren't doing it to see people die; they're there for the 'thrills of competition.' (But you just can't get enough of those shots where the people breathe their last. You don't see death often enough. If you tune out for a few episodes, you might forget what it looks like.)"
It is going to happen. Just trust me on this one.
"Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence." (Marshall McLuhan)
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Three cheers for Marshall McLuhan! :)
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