{"id":31805,"date":"2012-12-17T20:56:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T03:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/17\/violent-video-games-instigator-or-symptom.html"},"modified":"2012-12-18T19:12:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T02:12:02","slug":"violent-video-games-instigator-or-symptom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/17\/violent-video-games-instigator-or-symptom.html","title":{"rendered":"Violent video games: instigator or symptom?"},"content":{"rendered":"

'The question we should be asking is not whether<\/i> Call of Duty, or<\/i> Dexter, or the<\/i> Saw films are going to turn us into a nation of multi-ethnic, multi-gender, multi-generational psychopaths, unable to or disinterested in distinguishing reality from the images we see on all kinds of screens. Violent culture has existed for years, and yet, the murderers in the mass shootings that appear to be descending on us at an escalating rate, are overwhelmingly white and overwhelmingly male. Rather, it\u2019s why so many of us, even those who will never put a rifle stock to our shoulders or wrap our hands around a pistol grip, feel so drawn to violent fantasies in our culture. Pretending that such an attraction came to life somewhere in a massively multiplayer online game is self-deluding. And acting as if shutting down the production of violent images would curb our fears and desires to fight back against them is an attempt to avoid confronting how frightening our society is for so many citizens even on ordinary days.'<\/i><\/p>\n

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'The question we should be asking is not whether Call of Duty, or Dexter, or the Saw films are going to turn us into a nation of multi-ethnic, multi-gender, multi-generational psychopaths, unable to or disinterested in distinguishing reality from the images we see on all kinds of screens. 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