Gamers Divorced From Reality?

nd01 writes "According to Gamepolitics.com, Bill OReilly has a few choice words for gamers and computer geeks in general. The well-known conservative pundit has harsh words for iPod owners, gamers, the PS3, and all of us 'disconnected from reality' by modern technological contrivances." From the article: "Basically what you have is a large portion of the population, mostly younger people under the age of 45, who don't deal with reality — ever. So they don't know what day it is; they don't know temperature it is; they don't know what their neighbor looks like. They don't know anything... because they are constantly diverted by a machine. Now what this does is it takes a person away from reality because they've created their own reality..."

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Oh the irony

[FhnuZoag]

An appropiate quote: Bill O'Reilly didn't say this, of course, but, hey...

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality..."

Then again, the Bush admin could be videogamers.

Also thinks horror movies should be banned

[sesshomaru]

Bill O'Reilly Wants to Ban Horror Movies (and is a Moron)

Re:Some Truth to This

[BarryJacobsen]

Look around a college campus during class change. How many of those people have a phone attached to their head, completely ignoring all the real people around them? Sure they're connected to another person at that moment, but they're cut off from the physical world they're walking through almost entirely.

Ever continue this thought and think that maybe it's not a situation they've created for themselves but rather a situation they are put into? Students are given 15 minutes between classes where they must get from arbitrary requirement A to arbitrary requirement B. For the sake of efficiency on the University's part it's best to have many students to few teachers as that allows for the best money in to money out ratio (Universities ARE businesses, they DO NOT care what you learn unless after learning it you use it to EARN them money - through prestige causing others to donate to the school or application of the knowledge to directly earn money). So if a student wants to talk to their friends they have no choice but to do it during their 15 minutes of "free" time between requirements. Being a student isn't about learning anymore, it's about fulfilling a set of requirements to show that you're able to do what your told.

Re:Pot? Kettle?

[Hoi Polloi]

Next on Fox News, war is peace! Ignorance is strength! Freedom is slavery!