President Obama, Please make an appeal to the media and videogame industries...
To produce videogames and movies that do not escalate our culture of violence. Certainly there could be far mre creative avenues for both entertainment options that get us off the violence track. I've seen how these kids (and immature adults) playing shoot-em-up mercenary video games become desensitized to violence in the real world. I am so repulsed HBO and the like body-count movies that teach problem solving through violence.
Mario brothers, PAC MAN and the like were fun, creative, artful, challenging without producing violence-desensitization. Where did this get so off track onto all the visceral-reactionary mercenary crap? I, for one, am not "sold" on it, preferring more cerebral challenges. I'm not one of the video-game generation, but I did very much enjoy "MYST".
If our president were to take the lead, make a public announcement to call for creativity to produce problem solving challenge games rather than those that constantly reinforce "The one with the gun is IN control" of the situation...
Let's teach children that the unhinged one with the gun is the one OUT of control... blowing it!!!
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