Way of the Mind

If you don’t think that this site is one of the most disgusting things you’ve ever seen, then forgive me for being blunt, but you have a problem.

For the last couple of decades, the media, sleazy lawyers (redundant, I know) and opportunistic politicians (there I go again…) have been, from time to time, creating media circuses because computer and video games are corrupting our children with gratuitous violence, blood, gore, disrespect for authority and, worst of all, nudity! That no scientific study (and there have been several) has ever linked real life violence with computer games is of no interest to these parasites - it is an opportunity to get richer (to a lawyer like the vermin above) and an opportunity to be seen as “protecting children” and “fighting for family values” (just check out Hillary Clinton, whom I had nothing against until now).

Why do these tactics work? Because parents want them. Parenting is hard work, and it’s much easier to let the government do it through legislation, instead of taking an active interest in educating your children, spending time with them (“time? impossible, I have to work!”), getting to know them, and having an idea of what their entertainment is about. So people claim for stricter laws, they call for the end of “mature” games, they demand strong censorship against violence and, worse, sex. Anything so that they don’t have to be parents, don’t have to take responsibility for anything their kids do, and don’t have to teach responsibility to the kids themselves.

And, so, if a child or teenager is violent or crazy, gets a gun and goes on a shooting spree at school, it was those damned video games that caused it. Let’s sue Rockstar or Electronic Arts or Sony, let’s lobby Congress to ban all videogames except those fit for 8-year olds - never mind that the mature games are clearly labeled as such, yet parents keep buying them for their children (”just to shut them up”, I guess).

“Personal responsibility” seems to be a forgotten concept, these days. We are all “victims of society”, and can’t be blamed for anything we do. It’s those dirty heavy metal bands and role-playing games… Ooops, sorry, wrong decade, that was in the 70s and 80s. It’s “video games” now. Yeah, that’s the ticket. I’ll just write a letter to my congressman demanding to ban video games (and violent movies, and violent books, and anything that could corrupt my kid (how old is he, anyway? I rarely see him at all…)), so I can be at the office for 10 hours a day and then go home to watch TV for hours, feeling safe with the knowledge that, whatever my kid is doing, he won’t see a drop of blood, a swear word or, horror of horrors, a nipple.

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