He's got the right idea, but is running with it in the wrong direction (and couching it in the usual Nader dosage of alarm). We do need to open a national dialogue about why the media (this being both journalism and the TV/movies/games/books) seems to sell itself with violence, even as we are increasingly seeing violence portrayed more realistically (that is, violent media often shows violence as a horrible thing, like in The Hunger Games, yet still sells itself on the adventures of a plucky girl killing other young people).
We need to reduce our tolerance for violence, culturally, across the board, as much by defusing gang warfare as by reducing the amount of "glory" that mass-killers get, glorifying figures in the past who won great changes without having to leave 100,000 dead in their wake, by encouraging artists and creators who highlight other aspects of the human condition, and mostly by attacking our culture of fear of the "other," which itself is part of the general package of breeding tolerance and political correctness.
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
