Frank: "There's a coarsening of the human spirit going on here, a growing callousness of the soul. And THAT's what I'm opposed to."
I couldn't agree more strongly.
I don't mean to light off a political discussion, but there are some things I really find disturbing as part of the American ethos at the moment. We actually have a political faction that wants to legalize torture. People are being detained by our country in secret prisons without having been charged with a crime. Atrocities like Haditha happen with barely a mention in our media.
Are videogames to blame directly? Or course not. But we live in a culture with shows like 24 that regularly justify torture. Our American military makes free first-person shooters that markets military inculcation as a videogame. We are surrounded by remarkably detailed computer simulations of horrific violence - and I can't help but feel that our society sees it more and more as a cartoon and not something that steals away our humanity.
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I couldn't agree more strongly.
I don't mean to light off a political discussion, but there are some things I really find disturbing as part of the American ethos at the moment. We actually have a political faction that wants to legalize torture. People are being detained by our country in secret prisons without having been charged with a crime. Atrocities like Haditha happen with barely a mention in our media.
Are videogames to blame directly? Or course not. But we live in a culture with shows like 24 that regularly justify torture. Our American military makes free first-person shooters that markets military inculcation as a videogame. We are surrounded by remarkably detailed computer simulations of horrific violence - and I can't help but feel that our society sees it more and more as a cartoon and not something that steals away our humanity.
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