Out of Egypt:

Video games are destroying the youth of America

That should've been my SIP thesis.

I was watching two 1st Belz freshman play X-Box today. Woefully, the X-Box has somehow become a fixture in the commons - like a lamp, though more engrossing, and deadly to human interaction rather than moths. I commented to the aforementioned freshman on the hilarity of the sign which 1st Belz RA Dave Gambrell posted above the X-Box on the paper towel dispenser. It read: "Remember: Jesus loves you more than the X-Box does."

Neither of them even looked up. They were too busy hacking apart orcs. J.R.R. Tolkien would be ashamed to see the use the game industry has made of his creations.

For more Luddite gloom, see Linnea's comments on iPods...

Posted by: funkefreak at September 8, 2005 4:51 PM

Ludicrous. Video games are a misunderstood medium and to thrash them in this manner is to thrash books, movies and art all at once.

Posted by: Jared at September 8, 2005 6:00 PM

Jared -- so is not the case. My step-dad is an artist and has no burning desire to play video games all day long. What exaggeration!!

Posted by: Carrie at September 9, 2005 8:29 AM

No exaggeration at all. To intimate that video games are destroying the youth of America is to intimate that all forms of art and entertainment are destroying the youth of America. Whether you dislike video games or not has no impact on their legitimacy as a medium for art and entertainment.

Posted by: Jared at September 12, 2005 12:39 AM