E7 wrote:rogruth wrote:When I see children @ 2 years old playing games on phones and other electronic instruments why is toys was us needed anymore?
So you want your kid sitting around on their *ss all day pushing buttons on some electronic piece of crap???
And take a look at some of the
CONTENT of those electronic games that they graduate to when they get a bit older.
I wonder if the violence in some of these games correlates to some of the psychos that are shooting up their schools?????
Between that and some of the
garbage that is coming out ofHollywood, heaven help us.
I've wondered about the violence in some of those electronic games, too. And you mention movies and Hollywood. I've wondered about their glamorizing violence, too.
Yet, when I was a boy, during the 40s and 50s, we had
Frankenstein, and
Dracula,
The Creature From the Black Lagoon, Zombies attacking malls, and myriad science fiction movies that had violence in them. However, we didn't grow up wanting to ravage women, suck blood from necks (hickeys excluded) , or toss little girls into lakes like daisies. I guess the fictions on the screens in front of us were ways for us to vent frustrations and excess (oh, those were the days!!!) energy (although wrestling and playing tackle-football worked well at doing that, too.)
Bottom line is, I never really came in contact with anybody violent when I was a child and an adolescent, so I have difficulty relating to or understanding why somebody, especially a teenager, would want to hurt others. Frustration? Rejection? Confused sexuality? I just don't know.
If anybody here has real light to spread on this, I'd love to hear it.
Murph
P.S. My wife and I are infrequent watchers of
Law and Order, and of
Criminal Minds. More often than not, we have found them to be so violent that they cease to be entertaining. They hurt. And their violent plots seem to have gradually acquired a propensity to feature especially violent actions against females. We used to think that, fortunately, violence against children was a territory not to be breached, but that has proven incorrect, also. Several shows have featured children being hurt or killed. These shows seem to have had an uptick in the level of violence, but that violence seems, in fact, to be mirroring the news, feeding a thirst somewhere.
