Online Gaming: So Awesome it's Not

When I was born, the world was a far simpler place. Video games were played on a console you purchased at somewhere like Toys R US. The game were simple and usually 2D. This is not to say they were not challenging, because they sure as hell were. A controller only has four buttons and two shoulder buttons. Games were relatively easy to pick up and play. The controls were highly intuitve.

Fast forward to the present day. Game controllers for an X-BOX 360 are highly complicated. Games tend to be extremely complex to the point where you need ten minutes of instruction before you can even   attempt to play them. Most games have gone online as well. This is a problem. Kids who play online seem to practice roughly ten hours per day until they develop godlike skills.

Apply this ten hour rule to anything else. Guitar? Practice guitar ten hours a day and you know who you might sound like? Jimmy Page. Well not really, but pretty close. I'm not insulting video games. They are awesome. They stimulate the senses and the imagination. They give children a reason to stay off the streets and out of the pool halls.

This post is kind of like existence. It has no intrinsic purpose. But anyway I was just reflecting on my childhood. I'm glad I got to play video games, but I wish I were moderated more. I should have been forced to go outside more and socialize and experience the world. I should have gone outside and ate steaks so I didn't look like the next child Angelina Jolie is waiting to adopt. Maybe she'll adopt me now, since I haven't really changed much. Now that video games are online people are going to spend even more time wasting time. If you were to videotape someone playing for hours, then you would see a person staring a screen moving there thumbs and occasionally getting up to eat and move the washroom. I feel rather unproductive in that state.

Thanks for reading my preachy Public Service Announcement.

Choose anew, please evolve, take flight.

Yes. It that's time in space time. Time for the human race to disregard this self-imposed failed asceticism and and pseudo-puritanical fake morality. Yes I went there. Every time we face a major paradigm shift people all over the planet panic for no logical reason. This is a problem. We live in a culture predicated upon a set of false assumptions. When Elvis danced on the Ed Sullivan Show it did not promote anarchy. There were not wild copulations in the streets of Chicago... at least to my knowledge.

When it comes to this youth generation's media fixation people are up in arms. Children are living increasingly sedentary lives which lead to childhood obesity. Youths no longer know how to properly socialize because they spend all their time in Facebook. What has technology done to us, made us into a bunch of mindless cyborgs? NO.

Let me tell everyone who isn't down with progress a little something. Rockefeller, literally the richest man in the world at one point, had toothaches because he couldn't get anesthesia at the dentist. That's right... Let that sink in. A common person now has a higher quality of life than Rockefeller in some respects thanks to progress. What a terrible world we've created for ourselves... not. P.S. We literally need to advance enough as a species to escape this planet or we'll be none to happy when our sun explodes. True story.

Parents need to take some responsibility.  If your child is addicted to media, then set some limitations. Take your child outside exercise with you. Your child with base his or her entire ontological framework on how you act as a parent. My parents fed me fruit rolls ups and Mountain Dew when I was a child. Whose fault would it be if I had high blood sugar? Parents obviously. No child is going to innately know how to or have any desire to moderate himself. Youth is all about the id, parents have to be the rational mediator.

Progress is going to happen whether we like it or not. There is nothing "unnatural" about any of it. Everything that exists in this universe is by definition a part of the natural world. We're just an extension of the laws and processes set forth by the Big Bang. I want to see how far we can take it. Come one everyone, let's create something better than ourselves and escape this dust rock in a billion or so years. Look at the bigger picture. We can do so much more if we stop holding ourselves back.

Forsan et haec olim meninisse iuvabit.