“ In other words, it’s only when verbal tactics run out that a character will resort to physical ones (I aver that this happens in real life too, but I’m not a sociologist).”
Simone Chambers, who was one of my PoliSci professors at CU made a similar point in her own writings … she stated that the core tenant of politics is “talking is better than fighting.” When that stops being true, you don’t have politics anymore.
The violence displayed by men and women in fiction and life is almost always a primordial atavistic throwback to our primitive ancestors, whose very survival depended on their alert response to it in hard circumstances. While this remains the means by which most animals govern themselves, civilization has grown in part because humans have learned to use primitive instincts on more judicious terms. But some still consider primitive responses to be key ones- hence, media violence.
“ In other words, it’s only when verbal tactics run out that a character will resort to physical ones (I aver that this happens in real life too, but I’m not a sociologist).”
Simone Chambers, who was one of my PoliSci professors at CU made a similar point in her own writings … she stated that the core tenant of politics is “talking is better than fighting.” When that stops being true, you don’t have politics anymore.
Yep. My article The Fight is the Story is coming out again in a journal soon, and that’s a center of my argument there. Feels true.
The violence displayed by men and women in fiction and life is almost always a primordial atavistic throwback to our primitive ancestors, whose very survival depended on their alert response to it in hard circumstances. While this remains the means by which most animals govern themselves, civilization has grown in part because humans have learned to use primitive instincts on more judicious terms. But some still consider primitive responses to be key ones- hence, media violence.