Entry #2: Writing Elements and My Qualms.

As I'm sure you all know, I love to write. Creatively, that is. I am trying to get the hang of this whole blogging thing but that's for you to decide if I am doing just that. However there are certain things that bug me quite a bit about people these days, people who are really into a certain show, book, or movie, etc. A common thing I see from the people around me, society if you want to go that far. And that is that many people like to believe they have a harsh, cold heart made of rock and that if a situation happened to them that maybe included a difficult choice for them or something of the sort, that they would make that choice no problem and if anyone has personal and mental repercussions, then they're either a baby, whiner, wuss, etc.
Let's say a character's parents die in some show you're watching and that character is shown to be suffering from depression or sadness instead of killing zombies or the enemy and saving his/her friends from the bad guy, and then the person watching with you says, "quit whining, I wanna see some zombie killing!" or "If you had done this, then none of all of that would've happened!", etc. What I immediately think of is, you wouldn't feel the same? You wouldn't feel a deep spike of ice plowing through your heart, causing you to be unable to do what you need to do? You would immediately know, without question, that what you are doing is the right thing and just do it?
What this is, is a literary element in the writing of the show/movie/book/etc. that is supposed to invoke emotion from it's audience, however nowadays given how much negativity that we are subjected to in our everyday lives, it has given us all foolish, icy hearts and lack of perception, which in turn tears down good writing, good stories! There are indeed some factors that matter that aren't the writing's fault, such as the actor's believability, or the author's way of writing and ultimately it falls upon every different person on how they react, however for the most part of what I have seen around me, it is clear to me that we as a society have come to easily hate emotion and lack the attention span to care. I admit that I may be over generalizing and that everyone is truly different, these are just observations that made me think about these subjects and has caused me frustration.