Pandora's Box 2

Hi.  I'm moving this to Sunday because I never really have time on Saturdays.  This probably means you will see this a lot on Monday, but at least it will be here.

After watching a bunch of films, I've begun to question why all the dramas set in present day are either based mostly on wars or preexisting relationships.  Why in even the recent dramas that deal with relationships, the whole plot must take place in some time before the 90's?  It appears unrealistic for humans today to have the same relationships as those from decades ago.  It appears as though humans are becoming "emotionally sterile".

The loss of emotion is usually the result of a recent overload of emotion or a feeling of great pain from emotion.  For example, the SS troops of Nazi Germany were taught to be the coldwarriors as the vikings were.  It was part of their morality and was beaten into them with their training.  But there's hardly any Nazi training available to the public today.  But there are emotional beatings.

There's an emotional overload occurring every single day.  Art, which I adore and admire, of all forms has exposed today's generations to raw emotions.  It's all the "taboo" things that children can know of.  Sure, it's correct for them to find out since it's human life, but the fact that the generations before us have made such big deals out of things like sex or death have blown these topics out of proportion.  In psychology, the simple thought of the size of something affects how heavily we weigh it.  By making these things so great, we overload the human mind.  If we made them simpler, the human mind could take all these things at once, allowing us to have emotions.

Emotions are normal.  The "taboo" stuff is normal.  A normal brain can take them.  But as soon as we explode them, they push out all the natural emotions of a human being.

Edit: December 31

There's a British theory that suggests that the movies themselves are destroying emotion by creating unrealistic expectations for love.  It's because women are all looking for the special someone who happens to be a rich, loyal, and/or vampiric stud with an Australian accent and men are all looking for a bioengineered beauty willing to go anywhere, for free, and only for that man.  And we're all looking to be in some situation where we meet under awkward circumstances in our adolescent years, but are pulled apart by war/family, only to be gracefully reunited by a long string of coincidences/death/war.

But no.