There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.
Interpretation
The quote highlights how mass media influences and perpetuates violence in society.
Alva Myrdal's quote points out the significant role that mass media plays in shaping cultural attitudes towards violence. She suggests that the imagery and narratives presented in visual media are particularly potent in influencing public perception and behaviors, thereby serving as a powerful factor in promoting a culture of violence.
In practice
In discussions about media regulation, one could use this quote to highlight the responsibility of media creators.
Because war and preparations for war have acquired legitimacy, and because of the tremendous proliferation of arms through production and export, so that they are now available more or less to all and sundry, right down to handguns and stilettos, the cult of violence has by now so permeated relations between people that we are compelled to witness as well an increase in everyday violence.
War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.
The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.
When I am liberated by silence, when I am no longer involved in the measurement of life, but in the living of it, I can discover a form of prayer in which there is effectively no distraction. My whole life becomes a prayer. My whole silence is full of prayer. The world of silence in which I am immersed contributes to my prayer.
There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the charms of sweetness; in the middle the contests of temptation; and in the end the fullness of perfection.
It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.
The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.
The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone get the same thing and equity is everyone get the things they deserve.
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