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Clinton, Lieberman Propose CDC Investigate Games
Gamespot reports that Senators Clinton and Lieberman have asked the Centers for Disease control to investigate how games impact us poor deluded citizens. From the article: "Even though the legislation--called the Children and Media Research Advancement Act--does not include restrictions, it appears to be intended as a way to justify them. That's because a string of court decisions have been striking down antigaming laws because of a lack of hard evidence that minors are harmed by violence in video games. The original version of the bill earmarked $90 million for the study, but Lieberman press secretary Rob Sawicki said that the committee had approved the measure without any dollar figure and that such a figure would be added later during the appropriations process." Gamasutra has some background on the bill, which was originally proposed in 2003.
Damn those meddling Republicans, intruding into our personal lives!
Oh, wait...
The only reason these senators run against these things (video games, movies, music etc.) is to gain power.
On a note, I think that video games actually promote social interaction, problem solving, reactions, that kind of stuff. Have you ever played Halo 2, on xbox live? I have. The social climate there is not much different from real life. Players learn how to work together, to accomplish a task. I believe that my learning skills have been improved through the use of video games. I used to pick up a game and take months to figure out everything, nowadays I can pick up a game and figure it out in a couple days.
As for the comments you made John Miles, I think you should just shut your throat. Children are "programmable"? Unable to think for themselves? I'm a child, a 15 year old, and I can tell you exactly what I think of you, and what I think of this evil plan to take away my god given right to play whatever the fuck I want!
I'll tell you something. Today in america, you may have the god given right to say what you want to say, but what has changed is what people will allow you to say. In this modern day, our nation has completely switched views on what our very nation was founded on. It's Majority > minority, here in america, and you can say whatever you want. But, people will criticise you for not thinking as they do. People will hate you, insult you, criticise you, for thinking or saying differently. Lets look at homophobia. In my school, everyone I thought was "cool", normal good thinking people are opposed to even this. I am a hypocrit. Why? If I voiced what I am about to mention, I would be shunned everywhere I go. I might, no I would be thought to be gay if I said that I think homo's are not the bad people everyone thinks they are. But this brings down another point, you can't change people's nature. I can't change my nature. A gay person liked me in class, he used to be a friend of mine, I hate this. People don't like the fact that someone might like them, and they might be of the same sex, and the first person does not like them. In america, I don't know anything about other countries, everyone is worried about what other people thinks of me/you. Everyone has low self esteem, and that esteem is boosted when someone likes you (Girlfriend, Boyfriend relationships). Everyone is afraid to look ugly. Do you know what my psychiatrist said to me at my last meeting (yesterday)? He said this:
"Ok, we are going to watch a movie and learn about the social body language and signs. I want you to find a movie, and we will watch that."
I have Aspergers, the social stuff if difficult for me to understand, so that is why this conversation happened.
I say "I don't know, I don't know any movies", and we discussed for a couple minutes, then he said "I have a homework assignment for you, go to the movie store and pick out a movie. We will not watch BrokeBack mountain though."
I was not upset in the least over these words, and it's not like I would want to watch BrokeBackMountain (I"m NOT gay). Later, hours later, I thought about those words and the implications they meant. America is afraid of gays. One of the guys from class I know well, and another person were talking about another kid in our class, who wasn't in the room at the moment (he has a lisp, it sounds gay, I thought he was when I first met the class). They discussed his lisp, I stayed silent and drew pictures of my own little universe. I eavesdrop, I can't help it. I wanted to butt in, but I let it play out. Quote my friend: "Bill's a fag," Quote other guy "Yeah, that lisp is really gay" friend: "No, he's fag and a half!". And lastly, I must agree with you john Miles, media can manipulate the social climate, and it has done so throughout the history of our country, and ever since the invention of broadcast systems. Movies, TV shows, Radio, it all adds and alters the social climate. I can prove it to. I think that there are two sort of good governments. Anarchy (no government) and a government that is very legislative,