Games, who watch no-television achieve the least in school
June 15, 2008 by Palangkaraya Post
Filed under Digital Audio/Video, Tech, Video Games
We ‘know’ that children who watch no-television achieve the least in school: comparable to children who watch 3-4 hours a day (fact published mid-’80’s); The ‘best’ students watched 0.5-1.0 hours a day (peak interpolated between).
But video games aren’t just DVD’s that mom returns if inappropriate material is found: they’re too expensive; and they’re not-really TV-like: they’re too intense; And content is effectually nonlinear (’random access’); And we have a ’stupid history of flaming’ on IRChats and MUDs– fueling video-prurience.
But there’s also a lot of ‘business’, in video too, And that, stirs violence in thought if its work-through becomes mentally cluttered … That disguises statistics-taking: We have to run multidimensional measurement-correlations.
Hiding the control of violence behind a joystick does not lessen violence– A violent portrayal never lets a child think of the causation, beyond violence, but silences and hackles the opination into brick-bashers’ numbing stop-loss: Ultimately violence must-be talentless skilless mercenary jobbing ipso facto.
Violence emoted, verbal or portrayal, is divisive in society: Making friends among the violent -as thieves make friends- seems no-violence-at-all but all the while pushes closer to the brink of death: the last -whoopy- violence…
Violence has lost its savor in America (call it, jaded, sated, saturated) … which proves that television statistics never told the full depth of reason– and parents should, have taken heed, to -any- touches of violence … today’s tabloid news is old-hat-rechewed: the violence today is against decent people and they’re called, gay, hooker, (and expletives)– to pimp the violent acts.
Yet still, violence never appeals to smiling children: Not –real– children.
But above all, The one glaring fact is that technology is outpacing mankind’s ability to be decent, ethical, -moral- … compared to when I used to ‘dream’ of space-fleet-team-games-via-Internet … back in 1980 … a long while ago. Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry

