Can you NOT think of the ending of GR?

[Paul Mackin]

On 7/24/2012 4:01 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> "This willing dissociation of response from violent spectacle has a
> downside, as many people have said: we become inured to actual
> violence when it excites us on; we forget that that there’s pain and
> death, we become connoisseurs of spectacle

Can there be "willing dissociation of response from violent spectacle"  
if the spectacle isn't seriously violent in the first place.  Is Batman 
movie "violence" even violent enough to dissociate from?

I'm asking for information.  Way too old to judge for myself.

P


> . This kind of
> connoisseurship showed up in the response to 9/11, which many people,
> with obvious relish as well as awe, said resembled a movie, a remark
> that left anyone with half a brain feeling queasy, if not furious." —
> David Denby, The New Yorker
> Many said it without any relish. & Pynchon has half-a-brain and
> he was furious (in GR).......
>
> He (and many others) go there:  "Blame the movie, not the guns/killer."
>
> David Morris
>
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:50 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com 
> <mailto:fqmorris at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > Ban Batman, not guns!
>
>

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