PBS Culture SHOCK!

HELLO...I return with more blogging... Due to my sudden absence on monday, I was unable to pair up with a partner so I checked out the website on my own. The experience had some good points, yet also had some cheezy arguements against violence in video games. The good points were that they were discouraging violence in video games because of the influence it has on growing children, and how it shapes their acceptance of violence in their lives. Perfectly rational, yet one of the article bits said something along the lines of "With the influence of these games in our minds, we go out into the streets with cross-hairs embedded on others" which seems a bit overthought. Then there were images of some lady with her eye poked out, and St. Sebastian with a spear through his head, obviously not related to video games. On top of that, it was connecting violence in video games to police brutality and war, with images of a building about to be bombed in the middle east, and a protester being beaten by police officers during a protest at the WTC in 1993. This was COMPLETELY out of context, the fact that they were attempting to relate the brutality of police officers and the corruption of the U.S. in war to violence in video games. Anyway, the image they showed first of wasnt even that violent! All I saw was robots and flashy lights!! I clicked yes... :P In a way, I would say that video games are an art form, as they are an incredible invention, especially in our age of video gaming, things have gotten really intense with the graphics and details put into these games. It is an art form that requires the collaboration of many brilliant minds that, in a literal sense, interact with peices of metals, plastic, chemicals and electricity to be able to put these complete masterpeices on to grapefruit sized peices of plastic! I suppose that the claim of video games " the representation of violence reduce mayhem and murder to an experience designed to entertain" has its truths, yet the only way I can relate is by comparing my experience seeing my brother play Call of Duty, a brutal war game. I would say this is true, yet have no idea how millions of others apply this sense of entertaining murder into their lives. I can relate from my childhood in regards to letting out aggression through violence in video games, because I did that a lot :D....that is all...I rambled on for long enough.