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This is real life now. No longer is a video game with such intense graphics only alive on a television screen. Call of Duty Modern Warfare "arms gamers with an arsenal of advanced and powerful modern day firepower and transports them to the most treacherous hotspots around the globe to take on rogue enemy groups threatening the world." Sounds like the evening news to me. As a player in Call of Duty Modern Warfare you can choose to play as a U.S. Marine, British soldier, Russian, or a Terrorist. With wars in real life that involve these same groups it should not come as a surprise that war is not as widely recognized as it once was. Kids as young as ten, teenagers, college age adults, and middle aged men are all "playing" this game. Then when war IS reality, to them, it is just another session for them on their video game. It is no wonder that there is an increased insensitivity towards war and the men and women who fight the real war. The video game allows the kids, teenagers, and adults to get INTO the game and experience the intense situations and feelings that a soldier may feel but when they are done, they get to turn off the tv and go to bed in the comforts of their home. The soldiers who are out in the real world fighting the terrorist groups do not have this same luxury.
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This was a really interesting idea. It is completely true that we are becoming desensitised of war. What I think of now is the effort to protect children from violence. All along, people have been concerned for their children and the violence they are exposed to, yet this effort has amounted to little more than warning labels on tv and video games. How can people prevent the acceptance of war if it is infultrating nearly every aspect of daily life?
the first thought that came to me as i read this blog was enders game. how crazy would it be if we were actually controlling and strategizing our troops all while we play the video game. i really like the poems you have on there, especially the one that had different words highlight green, like dream. it made me think like think green, which is what you were probably going for :D i love you so much baby doll, happy 16th day :) o and i never thought about 300 that way, but i totally could see where you're coming from, especiall with us being fit and them being deformed lol. except the homophobic thing might be a lil stretch ;) haha but i could totally see them doing that. what if movies are just govermnet propoganda now, where everything we see is just what the goverment wants us to see. could that really be or is it us overthinking things? idk lol well alright i'm done asking questions :D i love you baby cakes
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