tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241291.post2560464176158415092..comments2007-09-06T10:01:14.716-07:00Jnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241291.post-43096834419048633802007-08-07T14:33:00.000-07:002007-08-07T14:33:00.000-07:00Thanks, Neil! I just recently found your site and liked how you wrote (and thought) about it, so I am glad that you didn't mind me linking to yours.Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07924922999762832408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241291.post-10565309684338600642007-08-01T15:20:00.000-07:002007-08-01T15:20:00.000-07:00Rock on - <BR/><BR/>"Who cares if a large number of people find reality miserable and hindering enough to want to constantly escape into a virtual world? Who cares if the majority of women in the world are still actively discouraged and stopped from getting education? Who cares if "laziness" and "criminal tendencies" are still blamed for poor living conditions and poverty? Who care as long as corporations can still make a living selling subpar products to consumers and continue to raise profits by downsizing people and cutting environmental corners?"<BR/><BR/>This mirrors Nick Yee's "trouble with addiction," which you'd probably really like. <BR/><BR/>http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/archives/001543.php<BR/><BR/>I'll link you to an article that I'm working on - which might actually wind up being a chapter of my book - called "be afraid, be very afraid." When we talk about game addiction, we're really just comparing two things that most people already have severe pre-existing stereotypes against. 1) games, or 2) addiction 2a) obesity 2c) violence etc etc. <BR/><BR/>That's not meant to inform of the root causes of the thing, it's made to scare people and reaffirm their prejudices. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for the bloglink - This is all really cool - I'm impressed with how long you've been doing it.Neilshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12629966217673330687noreply@blogger.com