The video age

I truly doubt we would be having any debates about blowing up the middle east if two Americans had not been beheaded on video.  Likewise, Ray Rice would have participated in a blowout win over the Steelers last night if the video of him brutally knocking out his wife did not become public.   It seems we are all doubting Thomas' these days.  We have to see the bloody corpse or the knockout blow before we act.  Is it too many bloody video games,  the embedded cultural violence we all take for granted, or is it a moral sickness we suffer from in the 21st century.  Personally, I think our society suffers a collective Post Traumatic Stress Disorder brought on by the above mentioned factors.  Sooner or later, there will be a reckoning.  Hopefully it will not be as violent as the events which precipitated the condition.