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Originally Posted by rhadin
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?
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Are you forgetting about the protests from parents and politicians over Doom and Grand Theft Auto? Games like these were blamed for all of societies ills, from the Columbine High School murders to gang violence.