It’s not them, it’s us: the real reason teens are ‘addicted’ to video games
It’s not them, it’s us: the real reason teens are ‘addicted’ to video games
We criticise children for not going outside – while curtailing their freedoms and closing their spaces
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Its not just teenagers, me and my friends long for free, open places to exist. Everything has been monetized, everything requires a transaction. And that was ok for a while, but now hardly anyone can afford those places.
Video game worlds are vast and open.
At least I'm safe inside my mind...
Careful the Thought police might get to you, 1984 book.
*at least I’m safe inside my mind *
Don't worry, the best minds of our generation are already working to put advertisements in your dreams.
Hell, at least shopping malls were up-front about their literal storefronts.
Even that is a perversion- Victor Gruen is largely cited as one of the pioneers of the shopping mall. He was an Austrian immigrant to the US. He wanted to create a modern, climate-controlled version of the public spaces Europe had for centuries. They were designed to be public parks, housing, schools, etc, with shopping being just a portion of the space.
He famously denounced what the shopping mall became.
Hiking is free if you have access to it. As well as park. But i do acknowledge not every city/rural places have such luxury, with the overdevelopment and car infestation, greenspace is hard to come by.
I do get your point though, here in tropical country, i always have intense urge to just hike a random mountain but if i wanna climb that mountain i have to have permit and a guide, which makes sense because if not they might have to retrieve my corpse afterward. The world are actually very open, but man we human has lost that skill to unlock those place.
Unfortunately, NIMBYism comes into play should teens start making heavy use of any outdoor spaces, including trails and parks. Low or zero-cost can't be the only factor in providing places for kids, there also have to be protections against or ways to assuage older persons that are being fed constant streams of fear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WINDtlPXmmE
Your comment reminded me of the "just leave me alone" portion of this rant. Not that I'm disagreeing with you, just pointing out that there's an inherent danger attached to escapism.
This movie (Network) will turn 50 in two years. Nothing has changed.
Just to be clear, I wasnt advocating for escapism. Merely, video games are the obvious answer to "where can I exist for free/cheap?"
I already understood that.