Wall Street Journal editor Stephen Moore wrote a piece in today's edition stating that Japan created video games out of vengeance for Hiroshima (yes, this was in the Wall Street Journal), equating video games with drugs or sex responsible for the atrophy of their children's muscles, and dubbing gaming industry representatives as warlords. Of course, Moore also writes for the National Review, take that for what you will. Some choice excerpts follow:
My new year's resolution is to get my two teenage sons back. They've been abducted -- by the cult of Nintendo. I'm convinced that video games are Japan's stealth strategy to turn our kids' brains into silly putty as payback for dropping the big one on Hiroshima.
Back in October we established for the older boys strict screen-time limits. It was then that we discovered the true extent of their addiction. They ranted and raved and cursed and even threw things -- almost as if demons had taken possession of them. These are classic withdrawal symptoms; they craved a fix.
I'm not one to blame every human frailty on some faddish psychiatric disorder. But I'm persuaded that computer games are the new crack cocaine. The testimonials from parents of online gamers are horrific: kids not taking showers, not eating or sleeping, falling behind in school. Some parents are forced to send their kids to therapeutic boarding schools, which charge up to $5,000 a month, to combat the gaming addiction.
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