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Here is the crux of the matter for today's societies. After many decades of glowing screen hypnosis, I'm not at all sure we understand the functional relationship between exposure to virtual media vs reality. Or most directly, the effect of a child's spending crucial and largely irreversible developmental years, lost for hours, in a world of shifting and blinking pixels.

Anyone recall the evil flying monkeys from "Wizard Of Oz" ? They inspired a sense of visceral fear in children of my generation. Comparing these to today's video nightmares for kids would be like comparing caffeine to cocaine. I really think something subliminal is at work here.

There is a kind of mutual exclusivity at work here in the human character. Cultures so often seem to see either sex or violence as verboten, as if one of only two possible world views must be chosen. Recall that many of the favorite and most successful techniques used in the deplorable Abu Ghraib debacle to break down incredibly war hardened prisoners was some form of sexual humiliation.

<blockquote data-quote="boomerang" data-source="post: 215557" data-attributes="member: 3872">Here is the crux of the matter for today&#039;s societies.&nbsp;&nbsp; After many decades of glowing screen hypnosis,&nbsp; I&#039;m not at all sure we understand the functional relationship between exposure to virtual media vs reality.&nbsp;&nbsp; Or most directly,&nbsp; the effect of a child&#039;s spending&nbsp; crucial and largely irreversible developmental years,&nbsp; lost for hours,&nbsp; in a world of&nbsp; shifting and blinking&nbsp; pixels. Anyone recall the evil flying monkeys from &quot;Wizard Of Oz&quot; ?&nbsp; They inspired a sense of visceral fear in children of my generation.&nbsp; Comparing these to today&#039;s video nightmares for kids would be like comparing caffeine to cocaine.&nbsp;&nbsp; I really think something subliminal is at work here. There is a kind of mutual exclusivity at work here in the human character.&nbsp; Cultures so often seem to see either sex or violence as verboten,&nbsp; as if one of&nbsp; only two possible world views must be chosen.&nbsp; Recall that many of&nbsp; the favorite and most successful techniques used in the deplorable&nbsp; Abu Ghraib debacle to break down incredibly war hardened prisoners was some form of sexual humiliation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="boomerang, post: 215557, member: 3872"] Here is the crux of the matter for today's societies. After many decades of glowing screen hypnosis, I'm not at all sure we understand the functional relationship between exposure to virtual media vs reality. Or most directly, the effect of a child's spending crucial and largely irreversible developmental years, lost for hours, in a world of shifting and blinking pixels. Anyone recall the evil flying monkeys from "Wizard Of Oz" ? They inspired a sense of visceral fear in children of my generation. Comparing these to today's video nightmares for kids would be like comparing caffeine to cocaine. I really think something subliminal is at work here. There is a kind of mutual exclusivity at work here in the human character. Cultures so often seem to see either sex or violence as [I]verboten[/I], as if one of only two possible world views must be chosen. Recall that many of the favorite and most successful techniques used in the deplorable Abu Ghraib debacle to break down incredibly war hardened prisoners was some form of sexual humiliation. [/QUOTE]

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