Of course my readers are not foolish enough to think that computer games cause bad behavior. However this is a common Lefty trope. It is also found among obsessive Conservatives in their complaints about movies and cultural degradation.
There is of course a little bit of foolishness in the anti-porn and the related anti-sexuality movements in the U.S. too. These 'anti-' movements require a core rejection of human behavior. Nearly all males masturbate at least half of all females do. Nearly all males prefer to use pornography when masturbating and many females do as well. So the anti-porn people are just lying to themselves about an obvious and frequent human behavior.
What I want to point out is another obvious denial of reality. The fact is that in the 1940's and 50's, when I was growing up, it was not computer games that led people to desolate, criminal lives, it was comic books.
Comic books were the cause of clearly visible evil behavior. Every educated Lefty and every obsessive Conservative knew that comic books were causing the social malaise of the 1950's and comic books led to the outrageous behavior of the 1960's hippies.
These are exactly the same comic books that became central to our modern films on Batman, Robin, Superman, Superwoman,Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel and the Hulk. Many characters who we all know and many of us love. Some of them didn't make it into popular screens like the Green Lantern but most did.
The whole purpose of this blog is to remind my readers that there will always be a backlash to anything teenagers like: songs and dancing as well. It will always be viewed as a degradation of the society and the culture.
This perennial denial of reality is preposterous. True degradation of human beings comes in places like Cuba where every female has to wear the same expandable piece of clothing from birth till death and lead lives of mundane desperation. True degradation comes in North Korea where any possible variance from the norm results in prison, torture and starvation or more starvation than the average. Those are the main things that are available to destroy and degrade human beings not comic books or computer games.