I watched Frank Miller's Sin City yesterday. it was a good movie, and i liked it...except it was probably one of the most graphic, and ridiculously violent movies i've seen in a long time.... and to be honest, even though its just a movie, and i know its not 'reality' or what not, it still made me think about how much media has really come to justify crude violence... i've never been one to say that videogames and movies, and 'rap music'   are the cause of  the chaos and crime we see in our communites... but after watching sin city, i realized how desensitized i've become to seeing people get shot up or chopped up or having their throats slit in movies, tv shows etc... the thing is, a part of me felt horrible when i saw how crude some of the scenes were, but another part of me thought it wasn't 'so bad'...and when i caught myself thinking that, i couldn't believe it.... granted, its just a movie... but when i think of the world in which we live now... it bothers me that i can justify violence, even if it is in a movie... maybe it bugs me so much because i feel like at least once every two weeks, someone is getting shot in this city... its disheartening and depressing...and who knows who/what to blame for it all...maybe it is the influence of tarantino/50 cent... or maybe its just end times... whatever the reason, it needs to stop... we all need to learn to get along ... i propose that everyone should sit down and watch episodes of sesame street, dora the explorer, and arthur to relearn simple moral concepts and the importance of generating good karma...don't you think that  puppets and cartoons can change and save the world?... i do...