Friday, December 14, 2012

YOUNG MALE SHOOTERS IN THE VIDEO GAME AGE...

TEENAGERS HAVE IDENTITY CRISIS...  ITS PREDICTABLE...EXPECTED, NORMAL...

IN THE OLD DAZE ... THEY ACTED OUT BY GETTING DRUNK OR SULKING, JOY RIDING OR TIPPING OVER OUTHOUSES......  

BUT SOME BECAME SUICIDAL...  THERE WERE ALWAYS THOSE FEW WHO WENT OVER THE EDGE...EVEN IN THE OLD DAZE...

TODAY WITH THE VIDEO GAME MINDSET IN MOST TEENS...THE MALL SHOOTING SEEMS TO BE ADDED TO THE MIX OF WAYS TO "HANDLE" DEPRESSION OR EMOTIONAL CRISIS...   

ITS A WAY TO 'ACT OUT' AN IDENTITY CRISIS...

THE GAMES DON'T "CAUSE" THE CRISIS...THEY ARE MERELY THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH AN EXPECTED CRISIS NOW OCCURS...

VIOLENT GAMES ARE PART OF GROWING UP IN AMERICA TODAY...

IS IT ANY WONDER THAT SOME USE GAME SCENARIOS TO ACT OUT THEIR FRUSTRATIONS...?