Thursday, December 18, 2014

It's time for big budget video games to help us deal with real world problems


Our country is in two wars. Our shared sense of privacy is permanently fractured. The assumption of universal protection from our government is regularly disabused by reality. And we look at the not-so-distant future, and many of us see a skyline of mega-corporations looming over a gridlocked Congress and a lame duck president.


There are protests in the street, and at least here in New York City, it feels like the damn world is on fire. But when many of us play video games, there's not a problem in the world. That is its own problem.


I often turn to art for escapism, but I also lean on art for therapy, education, and enlightenment. The movies and television I watch, the books and magazines I read, and the music I listen to help me...


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