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Travis's avatar

Side Note on Squid Game: if there's no draft and nobody had to go to war over the last 20 years--except for the very small slice (<1%) of Americans who were part of the contract force-- and never actually got to see extreme violence up close, then they won't develop a distaste for it and they will fetishize things like extreme violence and civil wars because they've never experienced it themselves in real life.

It's kind of like how young boys get obsessed with sex until they've had enough of it to where that initial emotional rush wears off and it stops feeling so special and so you stop chasing it like it's your everything. The same applies to extreme violence once the fantasizing wears off when compared to the reality of the actual thing.

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Witter Case's avatar

100% this.

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