Not Now, John
Mar. 9th, 2018 08:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsJohn Carlson and his associate had a lovely talk this morning on Carlson's radio show, and the other fellow (whose name I didn't get) was reading an editorial about violent video games, and said he basically agreed with the premise that, as the games get more and more realistic, "there has to be some de-sensitizing going on there."
Carlson replied, "You want to hear my profound observation? My profound observation is that there's no disturbance going on in there if the kid isn't already disturbed."
Here's my equally profound observation: Australia, Germany, France, England, Japan, Korea, Switzerland, Sweden, Netherlands have access to the exact same video games. It's an international industry. And yet they don't have the violence we do. They don't have kids killing each other the way we do.
Now, why is that, John?
(Title Explained: Not Now, John, by Pink Floyd)
Carlson replied, "You want to hear my profound observation? My profound observation is that there's no disturbance going on in there if the kid isn't already disturbed."
Here's my equally profound observation: Australia, Germany, France, England, Japan, Korea, Switzerland, Sweden, Netherlands have access to the exact same video games. It's an international industry. And yet they don't have the violence we do. They don't have kids killing each other the way we do.
Now, why is that, John?
(Title Explained: Not Now, John, by Pink Floyd)
