IT'S THE VIDEO GAMES, DAMNIT!

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53. I totally agree but it's not a popular opinion.

Just WHAT do people think is happening when they give their children simulated violence as a steady diet every day? Do they not realize that it changes their brains? And now there is indications it rewires adult brains, as well.

You cannot spend hours playing violent games, watching violent entertainment, without it changing you in some way. At the very lease it dehumanizes people, and add to that the isolation of technology, and it's a disaster.

We're losing our humanity. Schools cut arts and other liberal arts for technology. I've seen parents with young kids rent Seven for their little boys to watch, and buy GTA for young kids, too. And they think it doesn't matter. But it does.

And now the fashion and entertainment industry is targeting girls and women. We see more images of women with guns, in violent roles, using guns as jewelry. Corporate America is destroying us this way, and too many parents are complicit. I know parents who have a newborn, and they put the baby on their chest while they play WoW, and violent video games for hours.

From the standpoint of young people, whose brains develop until their in the early 20s, there ARE developmental milestones that the brain goes through, and stupid ass ignorant parents don't know or care. In the brain around 8 or 9 is when the EMPATHY gets developed. You give your 8 year old boy or girl violent games and movies to watch, and guess what happens? And so it goes as the brain develops, violent "entertainment" is like junk food for the brain. Kids are supposed to be watching stories about a dog who is in peril, but someone does the right thing to help them, at that age. NOT shooting people in a semi realistic form. Child development should be a required course for having a kid, frankly. And the connection with these stories, is that we're seeing the generation of dead-eyed, zero-compunction, adolescents and young adults. The gang teens and young adults have zero value for human life, zero empathy. They grew up with a diet of music and videos that depict shooting and killing as a glamorous life, with no consequences for it. Ever see an interview with young gang members? They say openly that they don't care about other people, and what they might be feeling. Or they cannot relate to how they would feel if it was their family member. Sorry, but "entertainment" DOES affect young people. Even if they don't go out and shoot someone, they develop no shock over violence, they are most likely to make a Youtube video of someone needing help, than to actually help them.

We're letting the corporate "entertainment" juggernaut destroy the humanity of our kids, with the lame ass parent's help.