Really cool clip. I'd love to see the whole thing. When you stop and think about it, people today are just products of the mainstream media.

Very interesting stuff, especially the stuff about Limp Bizkit. It brings me back to the Limp Bizkit clip from the PBS Frontline episode - "Merchants of Cool."

Corporate Culture, ain't it lovely.

this type of stuff in not new it has been in human culture since people have been around... i would hesitate to blame it on media. the way that it is done is copied from media but the act its self has always existed. for example most society's have some form of execution hanging, guillotine, electric chair ext.. in the end its the same someone is punished with death. just like in this video the fact that these men sexually assaulted women the way that they see in the media dose not matter what matters is that the women where sexually assaulted...

i think in general the world is moving towards the better... for example if a prostitute got raped 50 years ago no one would care, if a prostitute get raped today its a different story (in most western country's). in almost every culture women where treated like property at one time or another, take a look at the United States women got their rights about 50 years ago...

i think its a good thing that music videos are the way they are its a fantasy, and if someone looks at the media and thinks its ok to act that way, then they are gone do it regardless of what they see, a privative ass hole dose not need the media to think its ok..

its just my view on the subject.

This is really Micheal Moore level of reporting, placing a menacing soundtrack, slowed down music video clips to present a very slanted idea that media has an undue influence on behavioral patterns of both men and women. I don't personally believe that.

What we see unfold in the park is mob mentality driven by sexual lust, at its most extreme. It occurs almost everyday in lesser forms across the world, from the guy who relentlessly bothers a cute girl, I mean I was recently on a airplane flight where one man went out of his way to get a seat next to a good looking girl he talked to briefly in the lounge, kept pestering her to the point that when we landed she almost ran out of the plane.

Music videos and films are all fictional creations, they are never meant to be teachers of morality in any way sense or form. To blame them squarely is fairly odd considering that sexual desires are the most basic of human desires, of course they are then exploited. Exploitation of human desires and limits are exactly the reason we consume media, because it acts as mirror to ourselves, that action movie excites you, that scary movie increases your heart rat, but we all draw the line knowing that it's not real.

However the saturation of this media is at an all time high, I wonder though if the cumulatively effect is worse now then it was when I was growing up and consuming it as a kid. I hope not.

monkey see monkey do...

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