Comments on: American Cannibal http://toddseavey.com/2008/04/08/american-cannibal/ Conservatism for punks. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:25:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.9 by: jenny http://toddseavey.com/2008/04/08/american-cannibal/#comment-12866 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:21:16 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2008/04/08/american-cannibal/#comment-12866 i'm trying to decide if i'm relieved or disturbed that annie lennox is illustrating the new wave/nazi portion of the post rather than the cannibalism portion. i’m trying to decide if i’m relieved or disturbed that annie lennox is illustrating the new wave/nazi portion of the post rather than the cannibalism portion.

]]> by: Byrne http://toddseavey.com/2008/04/08/american-cannibal/#comment-12863 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:37:32 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2008/04/08/american-cannibal/#comment-12863 "People cold and robotic enough to be “boundary violators” often come back to the same activities again and again: mass murder, cannibalism, rape, transcendent human sacrifices. Humanity has a limited imagination and there are only so many extremes" The rise of porn has actually made these extremes more extreme -- Deep Throat cost $22,500 to make and grossed $100 million, but the same material now is free (or, given the popularity of spam and popups, intermittently compulsory). So people who want to make shocking porn have to try harder. People who want to be really shocking can't just do the stuff you can pay to see, so they're forced to get even more perverse, too. “People cold and robotic enough to be “boundary violators” often come back to the same activities again and again: mass murder, cannibalism, rape, transcendent human sacrifices. Humanity has a limited imagination and there are only so many extremes”

The rise of porn has actually made these extremes more extreme — Deep Throat cost $22,500 to make and grossed $100 million, but the same material now is free (or, given the popularity of spam and popups, intermittently compulsory). So people who want to make shocking porn have to try harder. People who want to be really shocking can’t just do the stuff you can pay to see, so they’re forced to get even more perverse, too.

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