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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Not to say that you're wrong, but I notice that people don't protest this aspect when it comes to video games and software -- which are significantly more expensive than books (though the total collection cost may not be as high). Why is this obsolescence acceptable for games, yet invokes the Furies when it comes to books -- even when it hasn't happened yet?
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At least in my generation we were inculcated with the belief that books are permanent knowledge sources and thus to be treasured and kept; games were not. Of course, also at play is that books of ideas have been banned and burned; games aren't banned or burned. Books contain dangerous thoughts; games are mind numbing.
Can you imagine
Mario leading to the kind of upheavel that Karl Marx's
Das Kapital did? What game evokes the controversy of Harper Lee's
To Kill a Mockingbird or led to industrial reform like Upton Sinclair's
The Jungle did? Or even caused the soul searching of Dalton Trumbo's
Johnny Got His Gun?