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--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Deirdre Straughan"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 4/25/06, Andy Carvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > That would be the Rollercoaster Effect. We ride rollercoasters because
> > we want to be scared, while knowing in the back of our minds that we
> > won't crash and die. This kind of fear with no physical consequences
> > can be fun. Emotional shocks to the system are only enjoyable when
> > they have the subconscious acknowledgment that what we're experiencing
> > isn't real. Watching a person get killed in a movie or a video game
> > can be enjoyable because we know in our heart "it's only a movie." But
> > when we don't have that assurance, the experience is confusing,
> > stressful, helpless, horrifying. And finding out we've been played
> > makes it worse.
>
> And yet millions of people have watched videos of real people being
> really beheaded. (Not me - it's an impulse I totally don't understand,
> I don't like to see violence even when I know it's fake.) And back in
> classical Rome, real horrible violent death was entertainment for the
> masses.
>
> --
> best regards,
> Deirdré Straughan
>
> www.beginningwithi.com (personal)
> www.tvblob.com (work)
>
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