The Shock factor

This speaks of the element of shock and what shocks us as a human race. The magazine deals with popular culture which i feel is saturated with ideas such as violence, sex and war, so much so that we have become desensitised by the supposedly shocking factors of pop. So i pose the question, What is considered shocking, our behaviour or our lack of humanity in a world controlled by humans. Perhaps we are the destroyers of our own morals and human ethics leading to our ultimate destruction. But even that in itself is not shocking to the human ear.