Here is a link to a segment on FOX News (are they still calling it that?) about how video games are promoting a left wing agenda by teaching kids not to pollute, and using fear to do so. A few comments:
1) If not polluting and making environmentally sound choices is a left wing only platform, maybe the right should reconsider the stance they take on the matter.
2) One of the points the gentleman speaking repeatedly makes is that the game uses fear to scare kids into making environmentally sound choices. The irony in this, villainizing the game people for using fear while at the same time using fear by telling viewers that games are propaganda used by the left to brainwash you child into... i don't know, not polluting...is amazing. Hello pot, meet kettle.
But this segment reminded me of something that has been on my mind lately. Roosevelt told us "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." Today the message coming from our leaders is, "Be afraid, be very afraid..." Of what? Everything.
Now I'm not saying that there wasn't fear mongering and propaganda in Roosevelt's day, lord knows there was, but it seems like it would be a nice thing to have a voice at the top telling the nation that we would get through the hard times, if we keep our heads down and work hard we would get through this.
I say it seems like a it would be a nice thing because I don't hear that voice today. Who is the leader at the top telling us we'll pull through? Today we have reactionary pandering to what ever sensational story happens to be filling the gap between real news (Speechgate, really?).
Today our leaders seem like reactionary cowards, and I wonder, how many great leaders throughout history have been cowards?
Be afraid, be very afraid...or don't.
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