There's a huge problem with modern entertainment having no sense of good and evil, beauty and ugliness. Lots of nihilism and relativism, artists just wallowing in the mud...not good for the soul!

Not saying you need to make everything a moral lesson or anything like that, but if you're going to depict evil or ugliness, you have to believe that good and beauty are real, otherwise what are you even doing?
A trend I see a lot nowaways is random, senseless, and extreme violence. People's heads getting blown up, horrible injuries , and there's always a "realistic" reaction to it by other characters. It's hard to watch, and is almost always rooted in pointless shock
Compare this to something like the violence done by masters like the Coen brothers, in which the violence is used to make you keenly aware of the evil committed by those who do it. The violence makes you sit up and take note, rather than make your eyes glaze over
I just watched a scene in a "comedy" show in which a mother accidentally shoots her own son, the scene ends with them horrified at what they've done as the son bleeds out. What is the viewer supposed to take from this?
I watch media like this and am reminded of Mel Gibson's (another master of depiciting violence) intention to "entertain, educate, elevate." You have to be saying SOMETHING, taking a stand. And do to that, you have to believe in good and evil

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Viruses and other pathogens are often studied as stand-alone entities, despite that, in nature, they mostly live in multispecies associations called biofilms—both externally and within the host.

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Microorganisms in biofilms are enclosed by an extracellular matrix that confers protection and improves survival. Previous studies have shown that viruses can secondarily colonize preexisting biofilms, and viral biofilms have also been described.


...we raise the perspective that CoVs can persistently infect bats due to their association with biofilm structures. This phenomenon potentially provides an optimal environment for nonpathogenic & well-adapted viruses to interact with the host, as well as for viral recombination.


Biofilms can also enhance virion viability in extracellular environments, such as on fomites and in aquatic sediments, allowing viral persistence and dissemination.

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