Anti-video-game crusader sues Facebook for $40 million

Anti-video-game crusader sues Facebook for $40 million:

A long-time critic of the video game industry has sued Facebook for $40 million, saying that the social networking site harmed him by not removing angry postings made by Facebook gamers.

(Via MacWorld.com.)

Perhaps I should have pointed out video games as well as horror films....
Jack Thompson, the man suing Facebook is doing what I think he should do. I'm a gamer myself and I have to admit that one could look at games as "murder simulators" just as I see horror films as 'snuff films'. I wish Mr. Thompson luck. Wait, perhaps I should pause and ask; is it right to start this fight when he has another more important fight on his plate? On the other hand $40 million could allow him to strengthen his campaign against violent video games. Mr Thompson, if you ever read this, ask yourself; is this the right path to take?

60 Minutes story on this issue partially Grand Theft Auto, including brief interview with Jack Thompson.

Horror films? Should it be ones cup of tea?

I'm not sure about most people, well perhaps I am when I hear that a horror film grossed $25 million in it's opening weekend! This aside I have begun to wonder if horror movies are what we think they are. I've recently come to a conclusion on what I think horror movies are - essentially snuff films. Think about this for a moment, you watch a film for entertainment and it's about people being at times hacked to death. Now these movies depict people often being stalked by another human or a some manner of earthly or celestial beast, then in short order being mangled in detailed ways before our eyes.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed watching these movies for most of my life, but only here recently have I asked myself 'why' I like them. It took me some time to get to this loose conclusion but I'm here. I now ask myself the question; 'do you really want to watch people being slaughtered'. I know it may sound strange but I think it to be a valid question to ask before turning on the next slasher flick on cable.

I'm not one exactly for the argument that violent films breed violent people, however we all know that some people are not 'right in the head' (my apologies on the use of a crude term), so what might happen if one of these people are susceptible to what this kind of 'entertainment' could do.

Advertising- New Documentary: Art & Copy

After watching the trailer for the new Documentary Art & Copy brings me to a question (which maybe it could answer); is the advertising of today good for us? Let's be honest its deception of the highest order. As we go about our lives do we take the time to ask ourselves do we need this or that product, more importantly do we find a real answer and not an answer based on a manipulated emotion.

Ads as well as movies themselves can shape opinion, at times no matter how intelligent a person may be. Do people really take the time to dissect various bits of information as I assume they should to make informed decisions? Is it that we don't have enough time to 'think' in our busy lives? How effective are you at doing this?

"A Tribal Energy"

When people use this term "Tribal Energy" do they really understand what they are saying or even what tribal energy is? I suspect that they don't truly know what it is, but only have an idea of what it is. This I find quite strange because this kind of thing is done all the time in human culture. Today while watching a show on theater production and related topics, a producer or some such person that worked on the production Hair, said that what they were going for was to convey a spirit which translated into a tribal feeling. This I find it hard to believe that he would know anything about anything that is tribal. I think what he was trying to say was - trying to convey the feeling of our audiences ideas of 'tribal'. Unless I'm wrong and he producer is also an anthropologist on the weekend. I do understand what the person is 'trying' to say'; however, I think it may be an injustice to true 'tribal energy'.

This to me is an example of an odd event in human thoughts and discourse. If you know exactly what it's called please let me know (a more formal term). I ask myself; should this kind of thing be done? Does this produce misconceptions and ultimately what are the ramifications of this kind of generalization (i'll call it generalization for simplicity's sake)?