parents are less involved in their kids livesit’s no longer safe for kids to play outside in many placessocietal distancing is worse then everthere’s a mental health crisis that has been ignoredthere’s a lack in healthy role models and an abundance of toxic onesall across the world there’s political turmoil caused by politicians convincing the people to hate eachother rather than those in poweraddiction has been normalized, kids watch their parents glued to their phones and they learnkids are taught that they can become anything but will need to come to grips with the reality that they simply cannot- Muh video games
Video game addiction is a symptom of multiple societal issues, you cannot simply solve it dealing with the symptom.
Thanks this is far better then the posts blaming parents like they’re the only vector in their child’s life.
While parents certainly have a part to play societal issues are the underlying cause.
And making their parents lives better would address most of those societal issues.
Of course but that would require threatening the capitalist class and the politicians cannot allow that for obvious reasons
By “no longer safe to play outside” are you referring to the people operating child murdering trucks?
I live in a city outside of the US, it’s not particularly safe for kids to play outside as there is crazy traffic and nowhere to really go.
There are just a few small parks in the city and they are not easily accessible.
When I lived in the states, I played outside with friends in the suburbs, but stopped around high school, as there were very few kids in my neighborhood and previous friends moved away/outgrew playing as they were older than me.
What else are they gonna do? Play outside in the 100+heat highway adjacent parking lot?
We closed all the youth centers, made it illegal to loiter, banned them from places like coffee shops and malls, made parks miles away from residential home, prevented them from any mobility until they’re 16… It’s those damn video games!
I mean god forbid we let them go outside and have unstructured time. They might get addicted to something.
I mean god forbid we let them go outside and have unstructured time.
That wouldn’t make our capitalist overlords money
I am 51 years old. I distinctly remember “articles” with headlines like this about arcades and the Atari 2600 when I was a kid. This bullshit never ends.
Not to mention the younger generation with no work ethic, unlike in my day… 5am start 6 days a week… builds character… then school… uphill… both ways… respected our elders… bought first house with 22… kids now… no respect… video games… no work ethic… living with parents at 30… avocado on toast… no house… AVOCADO ON TOAST.
I wonder about “critical” addiction. I don’t remember reading about people putting 12h a day into atari intellivision, nes era platforms
“And now our next story. Despite record heat waves, funneling money from public programs, ipad kids, crowed and underfunded schools, book bans, increasing everything so parents can afford less, increasing political unrest and an ever present threat of violence due to lacking gun control, kids seem to only want to play video games!”
“Kids no longer desire to go play outside.”
Outside: record heat waves; strip malls; endless, soulless commodification of human experience; hostile adults; constant, overprotective ties to the rest of the world via invasive tech; hostile capitalism…
Oh, and all this is depressing everyone.
Yes the decline of “third spaces” which are not work or home is a huge factor. Even in adults who in theory could meet at their local pub (assuming they can afford a £7 pint and it hasn’t shut down).
Why are so many old people addicted to propaganda?
It’s their form of escapism
Escapism in this world? Imagine that…
Idk, same reason older generations liked TV so much. Keep in mind they had to air the “It’s X o’clock, do you know where your kids are” commercial because they literally were glued to the TV. So when an older person says some shit about video games, remind them of this.
Also of concern:
Why are so many people addicted to reading?Addicted to reading drivel.
I wouldn’t mind if my kids were glued to books all day, but newspaper opinion pieces should only be used as toilet paper.
Hey! Those poorly translated east Asian novels that all seem waaaaay to similar to be anything other than one persons fever dream replayed 47 times are just interesting enough to keep me going back.
Serious boomer shit that somehow managed to completely miss the question of why the kid was that heavily into games in the first place. The very idea was mentioned once, in the whole article. As an aside. Blegh.
Taking the question at face value - probably because addiction is the business model now.
Only legislation will fix this.
We need more third places that kids, teens, AND adults can access. Without needing to drive to them.
His first console was a gameboy advance? My first was a gameboy and I’m 31! How old is this jabroni from the article?
“Sixteen at the time” is doing a lot of work in this article.
If I were young I would totally play all the games I could. They young ones saw 2008, pandemic, wars, inflation. If not escapism then what?
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What else are you going to fill your hollow existence with before you kill yourself
