With improving technology and human actors, video wargame images are looking ever more realistic, depicting combat in all its gory detail -- but minus the actual pain.
Video games are also addictive.
What better way to desensitize children into becoming tomorrow's lean, mean, killing machines?
Get them "hooked" on the high of fighting virtual battles, without any consequences -- until, of course, they grow up, go to a real war, and lose two or three limbs...)
It's called "militainment" -- and now there's a documentary that exposes this unsettling phenomenon. Read Returning Fire: Docu Examines How Video Game 'Militainment' Promotes War in the Hollywood Investigator.
Happy Birthday to KN@PPSTER
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The blog, not the man. The first post here went up 22 years ago today, to
the minute.
*Like KN@PPSTER? Check out Tom Knapp's work at the Garrison Center too!*
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