We can’t elude it, every news channel we flip to and nearly every movie we watch saturates us in it. Hollywood force-feeds it to us through television series on a regular basis. It floods many books and corrupts musical lyrics at times.

What might I be referring to?

None other than depictions of violence through words, pictures or actions.

Sure, violence Hollywood style captures your attention and adds flavor to the entertainment world, but have we come to a point where it is just too prevalent?

These days we are all too accustomed to seeing actors pull out their machine guns or toss a grenade at a skyscraper on the silver screens. However, it seems directors and producers didn’t wake up to the fact that we may be eating up more violence than we want to swallow until the disastrous terrorist acts unfolded in New York City and Washington, D.C.

Suddenly directors are scrambling to revamp their particular television show or movie. The fall television line-ups for the various networks are already in the process of being altered significantly. In fact, select networks are pondering whether they should omit one series altogether. A few recording artists also grasped the fact that it would be in poor taste to release upcoming albums with violent cover art, instead opting to redesign them.

Perhaps producers and directors are realizing maybe we don’t want to see all the blood and gore they thought we would be eager to gobble up.

It seems Americans today consume violence like greasy fries in a fast food joint, forgetting that the stuff

may have an adverse effect on their well-being later in life.

It is just too bad it took a horrific act like the one America endured to prompt these changes from directors and artists.

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the spice of violence conveyed by the entertainment industry from time to time. But viewing it or hearing references to violent acts perpetually does get to me.

In the aftermath of the tragedies in the U.S., it’s no surprise I notice civilians clamoring for comical films at video stores while avoiding news programs.

The brutally violent terrorist acts have hindered all Americans and even if it means curling up with our favorite comedy, we all need to find a bright light amidst the destruction that has occurred.

With everything that has impacted America recently, it just seems as though the violence citizens have eyed strictly as entertainment in the 20th Century has become a reality. Since the violence has become a reality it seems we need to have the entertainment version placed on the back burner for a while.

With all the abrasions left on America’s soil as a result of the recent acts, will we ever look at a Schwarzenegger movie the same way again?

I doubt it. For many people, especially those who lost loved ones, violence in the entertainment industry will not be considered entertaining anymore.

Now if only the television networks would quit replaying the footage of the terrorist attacks like a broken record, maybe we can watch the news again without continuously cringing.