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Today in our society, it is not an overstatement when people say news travels fast. Within seconds of a significant or unusual event happening, we get “Breaking News” headlines all over our TV screens, millions of tweets commenting on what had happened, and the sharing of stories or pictures through Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. However, have you ever noticed that most of the news we see or read from online consists of obscene events? Obscenity comes in many different forms. It can be from something “relating to sex in an indecent or offensive way” to cruelty, violence, crime and murder. I believe that obscenity is something perverse and most of the time it is something out of the ordinary that evokes a certain unpleasant feeling. Now the question is why are we unconsciously attracted to obscenity. I believe that our underlying fascination with obscenity is because of our nature to be curious about things we don’t experience, including the things we may not want to experience. This is because everyone has a corrupted side to them that evokes this type of curiosity. Curiosity is a strange concept considering there are two sides to …show more content…
Now, normally our initial reaction to this news would be that Bloom is insane and no one in their right mind would want to watch a political figure degrade himself by having sex with a pig on live television. In the show, they had even asked people to voice their opinion on this news and at first, most people replied along the lines of no one should “concede to any short of humiliation under that kind of threat” and “I couldn’t bear to see that or watch that”(National Anthem). In addition, 72 percent of the UK citizens had originally said they would not

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