How new media keeps corrupting our children
Here is a repost from Wired Magazine online which I like a lot. It illustrates how the threat of corruption from new forms of entertainment have long arisen in society.
The Culture War: How new media keeps corrupting our children
US senator Charles Schumer says some videogames aimed at kids “desensitize them to death and destruction.” But dire pronouncements about new forms of entertainment are old hat. It goes like this: Young people embrace an activity. Adults condemn it. The kids grow up, no better or worse than their elders, and the moral panic subsides. Then the whole cycle starts over. Here’s how the establishment has greeted past scourges. (continued »)
