WATCH: Why older generations don’t accept video games
Posted on June 16, 2017 in Video Games
In recent years adults, in both political and in media roles, have raised concerns over violent video games like “Mortal Kombat” or “Grand Theft Auto,” worrying that they turn members of younger generations indolent or violent.
But Patrick Markey, co-author of “Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games Is Wrong,” explained during a recent episode of “Salon Talks,” that this concern that he termed “a moral panic” owes more to the newness of video games than to anything intrinsically perverse about the medium itself.
Why do political leaders become so worked up over video games?
One of the reasons is probably because a lot of people who are in the news cycle, a lot of people who are politicians and so forth, they tend to be older, and so a lot of them did not grow up surrounded by video games.
It’s hard for them to see value in video games. They’ll think people are just wasting their time playing video games. And they simply don’t understand the media. And it looks scary.
