Originally Posted by Prisoner1

That's a great way to put it. I watched a little of "24" and in a span of a few minutes I saw 2 torture scenes, a gruesome murder and a violent fight. What better way to condition Americans to violence than to keep showing as a "natural" part of the world and that everybody is spying, murdering, blowing up buildings or some other dastardly act. It is fiction presented to make people think it is real. You notice that you don't see any movies of Iraq and the people there being blown apart. That would be making the real world fiction!