I don't like scary movies. I have this feeling that if I expose myself to scariness I will develop a creeping subliminal fear. I recall that Plato didn't think plays were good for the the community but he was pretty much a fascist...really. I often wonder where people get the ideas upon which they base their ethical structure, their response to current events. What is it in experience that makes, say, one sub-urban Toronto kid a right-winger and the neighbour a leftie.

Like the moth's flight that hypothetically can set off a hurricane, I suppose the seeming weight of the cause can have a very indirect bearing upon the individual effect.   Once, I heard Shawn whats-his-name, the guy who wrote My Dinner With Andre talk about people coming up to him telling him this line or that of his writings changed their life. He said all that he thinks at that moment "I had no idea that would happen, it was never meant to do that..." Wallace Shawn. The lishpy Princess Bride guy.

I stopped going to movies as much after I was an usher at a live theatre as I stopped being able to suspend my disbelief. For some reason law school killed my ability to read novels - who cares about the unbeing and what are they doing to my brain anyway?  What would it be like if I knew innately how to reject the effect of all fiction and all fiction-like presentations like TV news?