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‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ and the Most Extreme, Disreputable Movies Ever

The Big Picture

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The Rise of the Bum Fights in the Nineties

When did bum fights really rise? Was it like, 97, 99? When was this happen? I think like late nineties. The cycles of violence become much more appealing to people when the culture is ready for violence again. You can take faces of death previously a very verboten and and hushed of object. And then somehow, overtime, that becomes ordering a tape of bom fights off of the cable advertisement. It does seem to have desensitized people to things that were previously only whispered. This is in a cultural moment where not just violence, but everything that was previously not main stream or spoken of is somehow getting a foothold in the main stream.

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