I like horror stories. Let me rephrase that: I LOVE horror stories. However, I hate how the horror genre has creeped into other genres, making it impossible to find high-production media that doesn’t have nightmares creeping in every corner.
Totalitarian dystopias? Horror. Guns and weapons? Horror. Scary aliens? Horror. Deaths and murders? Horror. Explosions and wreckage? Horror. Fascist technology? Horror. Rude or melodramatic speech? Horror. Tense music? Horror.
It’s far too gone to do anything about at this point. Kids are being denied access to good technology because media creators can’t clean up their acts and write stories that have happy endings every five seconds, which is what most people, not just kids, need to feel good about themselves. Most of us are desensetized to how scared movies used to make us feel when we were younger, but there are new generations born every year that have to overcome their fears to join in the public dialogue.
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