Witness

In 16th-century Paris, throngs -- including kings and queens -- flocked to watch such gruesome spectacles, shrieking with laughter as cats and other animals were tortured to death on stage.

Today, in America, throngs flock to the news channel for their Roman Holiday. I can't watch TV. I get my news diluted from PT.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/world-wide-mind/201111/the-turning-p...

The video is shocking. (See it here.) A line of students sits on the ground, heads bowed. A police officer dressed in riot gear walks up to them, holding a pepper spray gun. He theatrically raises his arm, as if about to carry out an execution, and presses the trigger. A foul-looking orange spray shoots out.

Methodically, deliberately, he walks to the end of the line, saturating each student. He might as well be casually spraying bug spray. When he reaches the end he begins walking back in the other direction, spraying each of them again. The students huddle in obvious pain. People in the crowd nearby gasp in shock and began chanting, "Shame on you! Shame on you! Shame on you!"

This event is powerfully symbolic. It is about contempt from those in power and the wanton use of force against the powerless.
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P.S. It doesn't look to me like Sado-Masochism has changed much from then (your pictures) to now.

If you can answer WHY I'd be much obliged!

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