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Why Old Defenders of Video Games Now Attack Them

This is my theory on why people who once defended video games from people claiming they made you violent do not defend them from people who say that they can make you sexist or have some minute effect on you because all media has some effect on you and that can be bad and because that can be bad, it is best to censor it through public backlash if anyone steps out of the norm.



One of the defenses that people made about video games was that video games are an art form. They take drawings, writings, even movies now a days and somewhat in the past, and combine it all into an interactive form of media. These has caused these people to view games as a serious art form that can and should make statements about the world in which we live and to "grow up" as it were and get with the times. So when video games are still acting childish and violent without deep meaningful storylines, not to say that this is devoid in video games, just that it happens, people who defended them don't like it. Because if you strip the art label on games, then you allow them to be opened back up to being attacked as mindless entertainment for young children and violence for teenagers and adult virgins who live in there mother's basement.



Having deja vu yet?



The old defenders have built video games up into something that they are not. This isn't to say that video games can't be about real world issues or fight back at injustices, it is just that their main function isn't to do this. Video games are, at their very core, supposed to be fun. You can do fun in a way that educates, teaches, provokes, entertains, and enraptures, but fun is always the main goal of any game, and when it is not, the game, from board games to video games, are pretty shitty to most people.



But what the old guard needs to realize, is that their generation grew up on video games and the internet and angry music and violence and they turned out to be hyper sensitive over opinionated little shits, like the rest of humanity has for the entirety of humanity. Video games do not have to grow up and get with the times in order for them to be taken seriously. Video games do not even have to be taken seriously. They just have to be fun. Allow games to change with the younger generation and to entertain them as you were entertained is not going to destroy humanity. We are not going to backslide into barbarianism just because we can kill people in a virtual world. We simply are not smart enough to undo millions of years of evolutionary success with a virtual world of our own creation.



I get it, you want games to be serious, like you are now, so they will be protected from people who may try to undermine their importance, but I think you and I and everyone else needs to realize that by stagnating artistic expression to be the kind of progressive thing that you think it should be can actually do us harm. After all, what artistic expression had stopped in the 50's? Would men be working with women doing housework? What about the 80's? Would it still be OK to make fun of the faggots in the world? It is arrogant to think that the current generation is the most progressive that humanity can become, that we figured out all that we need to do. We will solve past problems but we will always be creating new ones.



And who knows? Perhaps a little bigotry in your youth can make you a more empathetic person later on in life, especially if we are going to say that we need to enforce basic levels of equality in a god damn video game because perhaps maybe in someway someone could be effected in suck a way that they have a chance of becoming slightly more of an asshole. Perhaps you would like to focus on alcohol, which in a few hours can drastically change your personality and brain functions. I am sure this prohibition will work just as well as the last one did, after all, Al Capone is now dead.

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