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Television Believed to Be Worst Offender
In Savagery as Form of Entertainment
The Worship 0 Violence
"u yur cnurcnes we give
.worsmp to the Prince of
Peace. We pay homage in our
neanto gentleness and com
passion. We believe in heal
ing the sick, caring for the
destitute, comforting the dis
trought. Yet in our entertain-
. mcui we are emnraiied at
every form of savagery, bru
taiity, lulling, maiming and
blood-letting.
And we are raising a gener
ation who do a pretty good
job of imitating thfe in our
neighborhood streets.
Television is undoubtedly
the worst offender. It brings
into our living rooms a nightly
torrent of violence which
makes many of us recoil', some
of us turn off the sets, and
som6 wonder how the young
sters can sit there and take it.
I'll never forget one mother's
classic remark, "Now Pauly
you turn off that television
and go to Bed. You've seen
six murders already and that's
enftigh for one night!"
A recent witness before the
Inderal. Comouni cations
Commission testified that our
q average youngster sees "the
violent destruction of 13,000
human being on TV" during
his growing-up years of 5 to
14.
TV, which is so circumspect
in avoiding controversial con
tent in its dramas, has virtual
ly a no-holds-barred policy
when it comes to brutality.
3 There's No Limit
"There is no limit on vio
lence," Actor John Cassavetes
recently complained. "Y o u
can get approval on a story in
which a woman is slaughter
ed, but' an honest story "
that's anctther matter.
The stage was well set by
the comic books when TV
came along. Torture, may
hem, and sadism were virtual
ly unrestrained in the comic
books until outraged parents
and the law forced that indus
try to clean itself up - a little.
The paperback books and low
fcV budget movies have inherited
some of the violence market,
but TV is by far top dog.
What harm does it do?
'it infuses a worship of vio
lence into our culture. It
makes brutality glamorous. It
sets up as heroes men who
are adept at smashing bones
and faces, wko are quick to
kill. These become the pat
terns of heroism. This is what
youngstew are iifvited to emu
late. We have always had sym
bols of manliness. A red-blooded
man is supposed to be able
to use his dukes, if need be,
to defend himself. Sometimes
that time-honored gesture, the
punch in the nose, may be a
fitting reply to an insult to
one's wife or one's honor. We
have always had a certain
threshold, of violence, a point
up to which we excuse it.
A Bestial Pattern
But when that threshold is
raised to include wanton
punching and mauling, inces
sant beating, slamming, stab
binge impaling, burning,
crushing, stomping, and chok
ing then we no longer have
an excusable human pattern
but a bestial one. Instead of
"punch him in the nose," the
emotional cry within becomes,
"gun him down, kill him-kill,
kill."
In a New York drive a few
years ago to rid the city of
sadistic publications, Mayor
Robert Wagner held such pop
ularized violence partly re
sponsible for the grotesque
trends in youth crime.
Judge Adrian P. Burke,
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then Corporation Counsel,
cited a series of youth "delin
quencies" - stomping a man
to death, burning a girl with
cigaret butts, flailing girls
with whips, torturing and
beating homeless men and
declared, "You'd think those
kids were using these books
for a script."
To impressionable young
sters of borderline intelli
gence, with unbalanced emo
tions, the constant stimula
tion to violence may sooner
or later erupt into action. It
can no . longer , be brushed
aside as "getting the aggres
sions out," as the apologists
for violence once contended.
Instead, as J. Edgar Hoover
has put it, we are "creating
criminals faster than jails can
be built."
Liked to Beat People
The borderline youngster
does not passively' watch in
cessant violence and come
away cleansed. He is incited,
stimulated, his sense of values
warped.
And so one 18-year-old who
tortured an aged man with
lighted cigarets and beat him
into unconsciousness told the
police, "I like to beat people
up. I like to see them squirm
and suffer."
And another, a boy of 17
involved in a number of beat
ings and muggings, said, "I
used the victims for punching
bags. I wanted to see how
hard I could hit."
The police are not shocked
by this anymore. They've
heard an 18-year-old who kill
ed a woman by crushing and
strangling her confess, "I like
to hear people scream. I like
to beat - and break ribs." And
they've heard a 16-year-old in
a gang stabbing say, "I want
ed to know what it felt like to
stick a knife through bone."
That's just about made them
shockproof.
For No Reason
The police use a new phrase
these days: the "no-reason as
sault." It describes violence
without a motive. Just vio
lence for its own sake: The
boys in Los Angeles who "just
wanted to beat somebody up."
The youngsters in Washington
who killed a man they didn't
even know - "We were out to
shoot the first guy who came
along." ;
-:- Why?
I've asked the question
scores of times to the young
sters themselves, in police
stations, in detention homes,
Li jail cells. The most honest
answer I received was from a
17-year-old in San Francisco,
standing trial with five others
for beating up an innocent
man.
"I guess a kid wants to make
a name for himself," he said.
That's what it meant to him.
Turn on your TV. Heroes are
men who can slug. They're
skull-breakers and bone-crush
ers. They snuff out lives with-
I out a qualm. That s today's
I oattern for herops and hprn
worship.
Most of our youngsters,
praise God, have enough emo
tional balance and intelligence
to resist the stimulation to
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violence. With the help of
parents, school, and church -and
with their own built-in
moral fiber they learn to
manage aggressive energies,
to apply them for good and
not evil.
But even for the good kids,
look what values are exalted
by the violence peddlers.
Manliness is identified with
the quick trigger, the fast and
deadly fist. '- -. . . -
Violence is portrayed as a
first, rather than a last, resort.
Reason doesn't enter the
picture at all.
Perhaps worst of all, the
vogue of violence preaches a
message of taking the law into
one's own hands. If someone
has wronged a member of our
family, "gun 'im down." Ven
geance justifies everything.
Be your own judge,' jury and
executioner.
This is poor schooling for
youth in an age when man
must be at his most civilized
if he is to survive. .
The new frontier is in de
veloping a generation which
is sensitive to human suffer
ing, not callous. The delicate
balance between humanity's
survival or suicide may be the
new generation's devotion to
human values rather than its
surrender to the code of kill
ing. American prestige suffered
greatly in Europe in the 1930s
when the U.S. was famed for
its gangsters and "Little
Caesar" was its trademark.
Shall today's trademark be
"Mike Hammer"?
The free world is against
violence among nations. It
should also be against vio
lence among men.
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