I hate this obsession with headshots in movies and TV shows. How many times per Walking Dead episode does the American public need to see a head being blown away by a shotgun round before it is sated? I really think this is a bad sociological symptom of an enormous underlying anger. It goes along with the humiliation humor that monopolizes Comedy Central, most sitcoms and comedy clubs—a type of humor formerly relegated only to the likes of Don Rickles and Japanese TV.
At the same time, we give lip service to bullying. What a bunch of horseshit. You have a government that bullies smaller, weaker countries, a government that bullies it’s own citizens, a bullying bureaucracy, bullying police departments. You have police departments that, when they are criticized for shooting the citizens with impunity—citizens they are supposed to protect—rolls out the Attorney General on CNN. etc., whose reaction is to say that the criticism is unjustifiable and causing cop deaths because they are afraid of being criticized when they gratuitously draw their weapons. Well, fuck you too, pal.
People are being bullied in the workplace by bosses and cohorts like never before, everyone is offended by everything—Jesus, with all the adults acting like this, no wonder individual kids are being mobbed by bully groups resulting in teen and adolescent suicide stats. It’s all related. The society has become extremely more fucked up than it used to be.
Maybe that explains the obsession with headshots as entertainment. It makes you want to go out and blow somebody’s head right off, but that’s not cool, so you do it vicariously multiple times during Walking Dead. Bunch of sick fucks.
My rant for the day, but in there, somewhere, is a solution.