UK politician Boris Johnson has this to say about video games (and I'm not making this up):
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"These possessions are not so much an index of wealth as a cause of ignorance and underachievement and, yes, poverty," he continued.
"The nippers are bleeping and zapping in speechless rapture, their passive faces washed in explosions and gore. They sit for so long that their souls seem to have been sucked down the cathode ray tube.
"They become like blinking lizards, motionless, absorbed, only the twitching of their hands showing they are still conscious. These machines teach them nothing. They stimulate no ratiocination, discovery or feat of memory."
I love a slow news day! We can put up some of this fun stuff!
Sounds like this dude read one too many crappy sociology books.
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So, wait a second. If I try to approach what he has said logically (is that really possible?), the next step would be to ban televisions, since the average hours of viewing per day is on the order of six or seven...much worse than video game playing...and he complains of people being sucked down the cathode ray tube.
What an idiot. And why am I trying to make sense of what he said? Forget it...
Boris is... special. No one really pays attention to him. Unless he hosts a comedy news quiz and is just made fun of. The quote doesn't begin to capture the way he talks...
"Eeeeerm, video games.... yes.... contraptions. Blasted things. Yes. No, they... beeeping and fuzzing and.... Errrrm. Yes. No. They rot minds. Minds."
Exactly . This guy is a joke here in the UK, the only people who might listen to him are the ones who already think the exact same way. The people who actually read the Telegraph/Daily Mail in other words. Can't blame the guy for writing to his audience.
I actually agree that most new games teach nothing and stimulate nothing. PC games 10 or 15 years ago used to stimulate the mind to no end, and console games used to promote brain functions liked tracking and predicting trajectories and problem solving. Games don't really do that much anymore. Some games do, still, of course, but it seems like most are just button mashing.
I dont know man...FPS have pretty much turned me into a one man army and the military is always trying to recruit me to single handedly turn the tide in the war on terror.
As long as they conveniently position ammo and health across the battle field I should be fine...
. This guy is a joke here in the UK, the only people who might listen to him are the ones who already think the exact same way. The people who actually read the Telegraph/Daily Mail in other words. Can't blame the guy for writing to his audience.
