Yes, but reading books makes me want to cause violence even more than movies. Rap music also makes me mistreat women and sell crack. I'm pretty much incapable of making my own decisions, so I allow the media I'm currently experiencing to handle that for me.
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"The physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our senses, that whole gorgeous and terrible pageant, were the breath-thin surface of a bubble, and everything else, inside and outside, is pure radiance. Both suffering and joy come then like a brief reflection, and death like a pin" Stephen Mitchell
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