The Mean World Syndrome - Desensitization & Acceleration (Extra Feature)

[Lisette224]

mean and trashy world! this is hell!

[Raina430]

I really think it is so terrible that in a video denouncing violence I saw more condensed violence than I have seen anywhere. At one point I covered the screen. I wanted to hear his important message,yet I feel like it says something about the producers that they are presenting this orgy of violence. I would rather have seen colorful

MRI's of what this does to the brain, or something more imaginative to make the point.

[betatalk357]

0:38 and 1:05. If I was there, I'd shot those 2 assholes in the head. Seriously, you gotta beat up a homeless guy to make yourself feel like a man and damn near kill a 91 year old World War 2 veteran for his car? And its only a boring Chevy. Mean World Syndrome, alright. Those thugs would see how mean the world can be to them.

[murphy795]

@watchessailormoon that made me lol, but the dude stabbing his wife was disturbing

[Watchessailormoon]

so violence is bad to show on TV, and then to explain that, they show a bunch of violence? "Hey kids, you shouldn't watch porno. And to show you that you shouldn't, here is 10 minutes of porno to watch right now."

[Watchessailormoon]

guess what people, bad things happen. There are bad people out there. The only reason that it seems like it is getting worse is because there is more media coverage. It's an illusion. Study history and you will quickly realize how much better things have gotten over time.

[Schnarkel]

America is so fucked up. When are we gunna wake up. We gotta stop letting media have such an impact on us. Media is for entertainment period. We arent supposed to take everything we see to heart and meditate on it.

[kelly941000]

can someoe tell me, how this video clip connects to stimulus addiction? thanks

[Schnarkel]

@kelly941000 Tv is the stimulus and people need more and more of the violence and action to keep there attention like a person whos addicted to cocain needs more and mroe to satisfy them. Maybe you should watch this again.

[kelly941000]

@Schnarkel Thank you for answer me!! i got it ;)

[NaciremaDreamz]

I weep for humanity

[jessicaorton3]

How can people be so desensitised that they don't help someone being beaten or an elderly man that's just been ran over?? Sometimes I wonder what this world has come to!! Shame on you people who look on and do nothing!

[PurrGrrl]

Okay, this comment is going thru too... Just can't leave a comment with a web site link in it...Really weird. Thanks Google/Youtube for censoring me...

[PurrGrrl]

I keep tryiing to post a comment w/links to some web sites that let u watch docs for free but youtube keeps censoring me, won't let the comment post. Yet I'm able to leave this comment.... I guess Google (owners of youtube) doesn't want people to share web sites on these comment boxes?

[PurrGrrl]

censorship?



[PurrGrrl]

censorship?

[PurrGrrl]

...

[blue4arekkusu]

The most violent movies I'm able to watch are zombie movies, like the 28 days/weeks movies. It doesn't bother me to watch zombies getting hacked up. However, I can't watch movies like final destination, chainsaw massacre or even "war" movies. Btw, It's hard to stomach the fact that some people can stand by while someone is hurt... if that were me I KNOW I'd be there in a second to help, because I'm extremely sensitive to how other people feel, and it would (figuratively) kill me to do nothing

[riquelbc]

This seems like a very informative documentary. But $250 or HS, NonProfit, etc discount is at $150? Really? Could you please elaborate?

[szumsia]

I would love to buy few of those videos but the prices are just rediculous. how the normal people can be educated if they can not afford to see the documentaries??? so stupid. its like they do not want that we see it. I do not understand this.

[1955thekeeper]

I, for one, just don't see the effects on the general population that this video is trying to prove. By the understood argument posed here, learning to accept the violence of our world through the media's portrayal day in and day out should cause every person to run over and beat he crap out of the thug hitting the old man pinned against the car door. Instead, they passively stood there as if they were watching another TV show. All that is needed for evil to prevail is that good men do nothing.

[6969696969969696]

where can i get this for free, or see more

[ChallengingMedia]

@6969696969969696 You can see the official trailer or a low resolution preview of our film on our website.

Thanks for your interest!

[daddysgirl3471]

@ChallengingMedia I started to feel an anxiety attack coming on after watching that 91 YRS OLD MAN being punched OVER AND OVER AGAIN! I am in tears. Can't watch anymore.

[y100269]

@6969696969969696 your local library

[CoachMustafa]

Come live in Saudi Arabia!

Damn! And they think we're heartless...!

Here, things like this NEVER happen!!!!

People are so caring and loving here!

Islam teaches to care!

[MidoriMartini]

GTA4 is the perfect parody of this 'mean world syndrome'. Play it and you will see what I mean.

[JamboCordoba]

So, are the producers of the video trying to induce an overdose?

[woahkudros]

Very very intriguing video, to be honest it really compels me to think that the reason why people are being corrupted by drugs, violence and sex in media is merely caused by corporate heads who exploit people's addiction and craving to certain media. It may be veritable that this worship of the almighty dollar is rotting us from the inside out.

[ConstantinIV]

Screw american TV >_<

Damn I'm glad I live in Germany, violence is censored, sex is not

[wildabeast11235]

IMO the state run education system has big contribution to this problem. Every second of every day its pounded into the children's heads that might makes right. ...now watch as the flock comes to the defense of their might.

[doula2010]

I was in my 20's and living in a little grass shack-no electricity-grew organic food and

living a great life in the early 1970"s. I hadn't watched any T.V. for 6 months. One day

I stepped inside a house with the set on and a war movie was playing. The way that

violence hit me was overwhelming. I can still remember it today. I had to walk away-

it was so disturbing. I think these things are on T.V. so we can let it be ok that our

young kids continuously go off to war&money is made by corps.

[aerobique]

RIP george gerbner

[Konform2zoidberg]

wait, res evil 2 had a nuclear explosion in a city

[USERC18]

Only in the Fucked up, amontuated piece of shit, America! :D

[MeanMrMustard99]

this reminds me of the time I watched and elderly man fall backwards down a full escalator, I shouted for people to stop the escalator - but no one did, I jumped over and pressed the emergency stop button only to have people yell at me that I was SLOWING down THEIR day! People make me sick.

[wildabeast11235]

@MeanMrMustard99 sleeps in the park shaves in the dark tryin to save paper, sleeps in a hole in the road savin up to buy some cloths, keeps a ten bob note up his nose

such a mean old man

[sunshineuk1965]

if society thinks it's children can be raised on such violence and it won't come back to us with shocking headline stories, then we are being delusional

[Freshtymer]

4:41 was the most shocking for me. That was intense. God help us.

[AMetalNinja]

Part of the problem is not just how children are exposed to violence, it's also how the parents fail to provide a counter-influence so as to check the media influence. For example, if a story is broadcast that shows video capturing an act of violence (such as the stabbing at 4:45) and children see it, parents should discuss with their children what it is, why it happened, and why it shouldn't happen.

[DeSwiss]

In addition to its overall banality, its lack of creativity or thought, and it's total failure of effort to avoid formulaic and simplistic plots, the kind of senseless violence depicted here is the reason I stopped watching teevee (particularly of the for-profit variety) quite some time ago.

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Teevee is pathetic.

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Teevee is unimaginative.

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Teevee is for sheeple. And if you aren't one, just keep watching teevee. You'll either become a sheeple, or you'll turn it OFF like I did in disgust.

[ClayMastah344]

Two months ago, a man stood on train tracks on a main road, waiting for a train to come and run him over. My friend's brother and his crew whipped out their phones and caught it on camera instead of calling for help or urging the man otherwise. When he was killed was the only time help was called for, and even then, there was a crowd gawking and pointing at his corpse. Not really making a point, I thought it would just relate to this.

[monicavictor82]

When I see or hear something bad I don't get involved for fear of myself getting hurt. On the other hand my little sister, now a US Marine in Afghanistan who is only 5ft 3in and 112-120lbs will run a full size man down to the ground if she saw someone messing with someone else, especially someone weaker. She's not violent as a rule, but she's willing to use it to protect herself and others.

[CalyxAsgard]

It doesn't help that we are often told as recommended advice, not to do anything, get involed, put yourself in danger or engage in any kind of heroics.

[veryoriginal2]

Wow, I didn't know Rambo was that awesome, watching it now. It seems there are some liberals in danger at the first half. Before, it would always make me nervous because I thought they didn't deserve it, but now I can just picture that they want to make movies less violent like these asshats, and proceed to enjoy the movie.

[BuyCandy]

I wanted to note that this is a stupid stupid video.

It is stupid because it does not acknowledge the falsity of "civilization", of "decency", of "violence". The definition of state is a monopoly of violence. He who uses violence is the state, no matter who he is.

[Speegs23]

Mean world syndrome?So actions make the man not the nature apparently, hilarious since all actions are but a manifestation of the nature itself.

It's called sin, and man is quite corrupted by it.

[WritergirlAD]

I always think of how I can hardly watch movie trailers anymore because of how shockingly violent and loud they've become, but there are little 6 year old boys sitting through them not even blinking-sadly, it seems they're already used to it at that age.

[mikesbodypolitic]

And what do you think that desensitization to violence does to people forming opinions on what is appropriate force conducted by the US oxymoron department? This says some pretty interesting things, and doesn't try to make a big case about people acting violent more, but on some of the other consequences which are much more real. A pretty good intro to the evils of the modern media. Question your beliefs if any of them correspond to the what the media represents regularly.

[Jester2415]

This is meaningless hype... we aren't becoming more violent, we have always been that way... Humans are naturally violent just like the chimpanzee we are most closely related too... humans were just as apathetic and blood thirsty in ancient societies as compared to now... media if anything has become a better outlet for our needs... better to watch Rambo then to go out and do it yourself... The biggest deterrent to violence is women equality and sex lol... compare Bonobos to chimpanzee society

[MarmaladeINFP]

However, we're genetically closer to bonobos. The difference between chimpanzees and bonobos isn't cultural but genetic. Bonobos are matriarchal because that is how they've evolved. Some argue that humans also evolved for matriarchal social organization. Maybe the reason we're violent isn't because of our human nature but because our civilization goes against human nature. Many (such as Paul Shepard and Derrick Jensen) argue that earlier hunter-gatherer cultures were less violent.

[Jester2415]

One just has to look at the middle East and their treatment and attitudes towards women and sex. Their societies ooze with violence, hatred, and terrorism... I mean even rabbits vary between matriarchal and patriarchal societies and so do we... it's part genetic and cultural i believe... Bonobos are diff cuz their is less competition for food and resources where male brute force would rule...Women in US have more rights cuz they don't have to rely on men as much... not so in middle east..

[MarmaladeINFP]

I'm certainly not arguing that humans entirely lack violent tendencies, but I think civilization emphasizes and idealizes violence. Even the violence of chimpanzees might not be natural as we've only studied chimpanzees who've been in contact with a lot of human violence and destruction.

I'd recommend reading Derrick Jensen's Culture of Make Believe. He writes about how indigenous warfare is often more ritualistic than overtly violent. Mass killings were rare among hunter-gatherers.

[tristramshandy3]

great video. while this all seems really obvious, I think there is a stunning lack of awareness by most Americans as to how programed they are to become desensitized- and the consequences it has for our own society, as well as the world at large.

Viva Montaigne- the father of the essay.

[MrTearsintherain]

Sometimes I wish I could opt out off of planet earth.  We can be one incredibly nasty species.

[stonedfishh]

when has violence not been a huge part of western culture?

[blackiron60]

WWI led to a cult of violence in 1920s Germany leading to the stormtroopers and the SS. Ancient Rome had a cult of violence to the extent that some aristocrats viewed whipping adolescent boys to death as a form of entertainment. As for today, well, I'm no longer surprised when high school kids go on shooting rampages.

[MrCalhoun]

They are wrong. The lack of help has not much to do with desensualization by violence in medias. Violence in medias has more other effects.

It has rather something to do with the "there's probably someone who will care" sort of thinking. But this sort of thinking is also induced by medias. And in certain cases maybe even trough a super present seeming state.

[MrCalhoun]

I partly regret what I said after I did read that the level of education seems to be able to make drastic differences.

[jasonlajoie]

I could only get about half-way through this video. It was way too violent for me.

[piricarmen]

@jasonlajoie Was that a pun?

[jasonlajoie]

@jasonlajoie No, I was just being honest. There is no possible pun in my statement either. A pun is using a word or phrase with a double meaning - usually for humorous effect.

[lightbrownpoop]

@jasonlajoie im only 2 minutes in and dont feel like watching anymore...i hate it when interesting, educational videos show disturbing imagery.

[mrtyles]

i also think it's hypocritical of CNN for attacking the bystanders for doing nothing, when they themselves did absolutely nothing to stop the beating. if they weren't so busy filming the beating they could have called the cops or broke up the fight. but no, they needed their fucking news story. so they pretend to care for the old man when in reality they are just using him as a news story prop. fucking corporate news network

[emwill02]

urmm, that footage was from Closed Circuit TV not from CNN, so it isn't CNN's fault, they could not have stepped in to do anything.

[wowproduction1]

@mrtyles you do realize that the video CNN used was not shot by them? It was taken from a security camera.

[Q2IN2Y]

@mrtyles now.. i maybe wrong but i think that video is a street view video and not an actual CNN camera lmao

they just put CNN under it because they have the story.

[mrtyles]

again, the abc anchor is also a retarded bimbo when she says the people just walked past. did it ever occur to her, that they didn't see the body? and what about those people who walked up to the victim's body and knelt beside it? stupid moron announcer.

[mrtyles]

the one woman on the left of the screen right when the man is hit by the car puts her hand to her mouth, clearly indicating shock. the other people who were "just walking on the sidewalk not doing anything" didn't witness the hit and run take place which is why they didn't do anything. stupid fucking airhead.

[mrtyles]

the fox news lady is such a goddamn airhead. the people on the sidewalk clearly reacted with fear at the sight of the man getting hit by the car. she said the people were doing nothing. what a fucking airhead. i hate how fox and CNN distort everything.

[mooncooninc83]

Wow!?

For some reason this documentary reminds me a lot of the film Network.

[puertoirish]

this makes me want to eat a steak!

[Clariccy]

@puertoirish What an intelligent comment. Do you have Attention Deficit Disorder ?

[670Kiester]

The 'first' world is screwed, i.e it's In decline, it's way too late to fix it. This is just one more example.

At a certain point in a society based on Personal freedom (responsibility not as much) and as the population gets bigger, it becomes basically unmanageable. It is a shame though.

[zell8888]

I think this idea of social forces sculpting our behaviour relieves too much responsibility from the individual. Citing violent media influence to justify some act is ignoring a persons disposition towards aggression. But I guess for people longing for a cause to dedicate themselves to, videogames and action movies (which are created to be escapist fantasy) are a easy target. oh and FIRST!!! ur gayy! first!

[zezt]

synchronicity!

Most of the day I have been thinking about 'the brutlaization of mass media'--I was mainly thinking about the ad breaks in this instance though i know about that. And then today in my subs I get this!