By TV screens have become monochrome. Just one color: Red. The color of blood. Too much violence is plunging the country into mourning and shrouding it in gloom.
Free violence is becoming a way of life for many of our youth, and on the screen and on social media, a new form of entertainment. The audience’s rate increases as the rate of hemoglobin increases on the screen. The phenomenon of violence has reached an epidemic scale. But how does it develop?
Our local televisions, in recent years, have been promoting the cult of violence by programming films and series that deal with drugs, marital treachery, sentimental jealousy among adolescents and adolescent girls, new upstarts who affirm their places in the sun with lightning speed, all against a backdrop of accompanying violence. These social scourges, which in social reality are exceptions, the screen and YouTube make them the rule, magnify them with the magic of the image and provide dramatic solutions to these phenomena with extraordinary visual efficiency.
Screens and social networks thus provide violence with a myriad of motives to express itself, just by framing it with one of these television slots.
Violence has become the communication medium of choice.
The mass media in our country has made us forget the smile, the love, the compassion, what an outstretched hand is to someone in need in favor of a nameless visual assault.
It is time for teams of sociologists and psychologists to be part of television programming teams. The mental health of our youth is at stake.
Producing a visual program, like owning a weapon, requires wisdom.
