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Funny what a couple generations of failure to engage, communicate, enlighten has resulted in. Unsurprising. And not all that funny, either.
I am not raising deluded narcisissts. I played video games, but also played in the street. The big difference was my parents made sure I knew the difference. Video games are no different IMO than the cops and robbers cowboys and indians shoot em up play games people (myself included) played. It is the reality at home IMO. I see kids everyday that I teach, and I have yet to be surprised by their parents. They are replicas. In some cases it is great and others it is scary. My job is to be a good parent and that will prevent my kids from being worthless nutjobs...pending head trauma which I also may give them if they act a fool!
IMHO, the video games and blood and guts movies of today have no more of an impact on our kids as the shoot-em up cowboy movies of 1930's to the 1960's have on my generation. The problem is the lack of parent supervision and guidance and/or the lack of two parents within the home and the well documented fact that 60% of one groups offspring are being raised by the grandparents and have little or no contact with their parents. This coupled with a completely dysfunctional court system will perpetuate the problems. Births by never wed mothers continues to rise and the majority become a burden on our society.
While I agree that society is producing deluded narcissists, I disagree with the author as to why people have this mentality. He is using the same old beat-the-dead-horse blame TV and video games for the worlds problems.
I'm reminded of Chuck Palahniuk's quote from the movie "Fight Club." “I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. [Expletive deleted], an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy [stuff] we don't need. We're the middle children of the history, man - no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our Great War is a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't, and we're slowly learning that fact, and we're very, very [upset].” (Posted with apologies to the grammarians on the board. It's colloquial spoken English. I've tried to meet standard grammar rules, but the last sentence defeats my efforts.)
Jump to page: January 9th, 2013, 11:30 AM
Funny what a couple generations of failure to engage, communicate, enlighten has resulted in. Unsurprising. And not all that funny, either.
I am not raising deluded narcisissts. I played video games, but also played in the street. The big difference was my parents made sure I knew the difference. Video games are no different IMO than the cops and robbers cowboys and indians shoot em up play games people (myself included) played. It is the reality at home IMO. I see kids everyday that I teach, and I have yet to be surprised by their parents. They are replicas. In some cases it is great and others it is scary. My job is to be a good parent and that will prevent my kids from being worthless nutjobs...pending head trauma which I also may give them if they act a fool!
IMHO, the video games and blood and guts movies of today have no more of an impact on our kids as the shoot-em up cowboy movies of 1930's to the 1960's have on my generation. The problem is the lack of parent supervision and guidance and/or the lack of two parents within the home and the well documented fact that 60% of one groups offspring are being raised by the grandparents and have little or no contact with their parents. This coupled with a completely dysfunctional court s
ystem will perpetuate the problems. Births by never wed mothers continues to rise and the majority become a burden on our society.
While I agree that society is producing deluded narcissists, I disagree with the author as to why people have this mentality. He is using the same old beat-the-dead-horse blame TV and video games for the worlds problems.
I'm reminded of Chuck Palahniuk's quote from the movie "Fight Club." “I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. [Expletive deleted], an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy [stuff] we don't need. We're the middle children of the history, man - no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our Great War is a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't, and we're slowly learning that fact, and we're very, very [upset].” (Posted with apologies to the grammarians on the board. It's colloquial spoken English. I've tried to meet standard grammar rules, but the last sentence defeats my efforts.)