So.. Videogames

While some people would expect this to be my topic of choice, I have suprisingly little to say about it. The idea that games are harmful is simple, bland, and rather ignorant. You hear it after any teen shooting/car jacking, and it's always the same. He musta learned it from the XBox.

And remarkably, it doesn't piss me off that much. Why? Because I know that it's bound to come. Look back into the past - During the 50's, "Rock Music" was blamed for everything from teenage sex to an increase in satanic cults (an increase which is, by the way, an urban legend.). In later years it would be comic books, violent movies, or the "Rap Music". Each one was blamed for the latest teenage crisis, and eventually the general community wised up, and moved on. It's a trend that will always persist, because no matter the time - old people will always be deadly afraid of the young people. Whatever we do in our free time - in those rare spots where we're all NOT shooting up heroin - will terrify them. And whenever one of us commits a crime, that past-time will be blamed for the corruption of the youth. Need proof? Look back to the very dawn of mass-produced literature - adults were freaking out, because kids could now become lost in stories beyond the physical world. It's an endless chain, and every medium has gone through it. One day it'll pass, and we'll all be adults screaming at our kids to get out of their media-pods, since it "rots their brain and makes them more violent".

Crap, I actually DID have a lot to say about this subject.