The McVeigh Video Game
Michael Stutz
stutz at dsl.org
Tue Jun 17 10:48:49 PDT 1997
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Alan wrote:
> I am expecting Tim McVeigh to show up in a video game any day now. Check
> out some of the games at the local arcade. See who the villians in the
> "shoot-em-up" games are... Used to be "drug dealers". Now it is
> "terrorists". And you get to be the one to "blow the badguys away".
Read a similar theme last night in James Kunstler's New Urbanist manifesto,
_The Geography of Nowhere_. He talks of the currently-ruling corporate
society's romanticism of the past in a discussion of the psychological
techniques used on parents and children in the Disney theme parks. Actors
guised as pirates, cowboys or brigands all stage "shoot-em-ups" to the
entertainment of middle-class families; he wonders if, in 100 years hence,
the status quo families of the age will watch reinactments of black gangsta
youth and their drive-by shootings.
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