Quote from: RE on Aug 23, 2025, 01:18 PMI am alive.  I'm Binge Watching Game of Thrones.  I'm through 5 seasons  so far.  Politics was so much more fun when the rich and powerful were killing each other all the time.

RE

Good to know you are alive.  I avoided GoThrones but You-Tube inundated me with shorts after I watched just one of them.  Consequently I learned quite a lot about the show on the cheap (not much time spent).

Lots of nasty people in that show.  I see it as VERY addictive gratuitous violence.  Pure entertainment and nothing wrong with that, but that is all it is.

"Politics was so much more fun when the rich and powerful were killing each other all the time."

In the real world there is quite a bit that going on.  Enough so that we are numb to it.








I have to wonder if TV violence led America to think killing your enemies is the way to go.  There is more acceptance of it than there used to be, and somebody is going to get bit in the ass for this new arrogance.  I was one of the many who was glad that Putin did not have an accident on his Alaska visit.  Something that would have been unthinkable even a decade ago.


Somebody said "Thou shall not kill once",  does anybody remember who said that?