The Rock & Roll Shrink

In this podcast, the concept of individual responsibility as applies to the supposed influence of various forms of media (e.g., TV, movies, music, video games, books) will be discussed and examined. Why media is not considered responsible for the miscellaneous miscreant and irrational actions of persons is stated, along with some suggestions given for parents to help “media proof” their underaged children from the potential undue influence of material that their level of cognitive development may be too “underdeveloped” to ward off and/or make sense of in a rational sense. The author’s position is that media can only really “cause” or strongly influence others to act inappropriately when those persons are psychologically damaged and/or severely disordered from the outset. So-called “normal” adults and adolescents (particularly those who have been properly parented) have the cognitive and emotional abilities to realize that whatever “messages” are being seen, read, or heard are merely “vicarious” and “fantasy based” forms of entertainment and mostly not to be replicated or imitated in “real time”.

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