i just read the new violence, by bennett sims, in the bath. in it some archeologists study a pot with people killing people and writer asks them to watch a horror film and they say they can't stand the violence. he says it takes two thousand years distance. maybe they just choose they form in which the violence is aestheticized. maybe the italian horror flicks are too crude. some like it crude. i wonder about the technology of violence and the technology of viewing it. do we get numb to real violence? i think about the horror of genocide and the industry of hollywood war porn.