Why Games?
I think game shows should be banned. People win tons of money and stuff by doing stupid things like trivia. Only the rich people who have enough money to travel there and win the money, and they don't deserve it. If these game show corporations have so much money to give away, why don't they donate it to charity or something? This country puts all its money in all the wrong places. Note.
Another thing is sports. Those sports stars get paid so much money. And for what? Playing a GAME! I don't like sports, but even if I did I wouldn't watch them on T.V. Tis depressing watching those people play a GAME and get paid for it. For more on this topic, read the essay "Trivial Pursuits" by Joseph Epstein. He is a (former) sports fan who sums up my opinions on sports pretty well. I would copy and paste the essay here, but unfortunately I can't find it anywhere for free on the Wired. Some quotes I liked from his essay:
"Fifty years of watching sports, I say to myself, and I only now discover how mean and dreary it all is."
Orwell felt that the rise of sports since the end of the nineteenth century was tied in with nationalism--'that is, with the lunatic modern habit of identifying oneself with large power units and seeing everything in terms of competitive prestige.' . . . He believed that sports do little more than mimic warfare."
"'In hell,' the sportswriter Thomas Boswell has written, 'boxing would be the national pastime.'"
"Why are there today so few athletes who seem worth meeting for a cup of coffee? Where once there were a fair number of gents or amusing characters among athletes, today there are a great number of what can only be called sad cases: guys with drug and booze problems, women athletes with serious eating disorders--let us not even speak of paternity suits. 'Drug-taking and dealing, alcoholism, drunk driving, spousal abuse, man-slaughter, tax evasion--the sports page reads like a police blotter,' writes Bill Brashler, a Chicago journalist. 'Culminating, of course, with O.J.'"
"These are just little games that little boys can play, and it isn't important to the future of civilization whether the Athletics or the Browns win."
"Watching Monica Seles play Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, two players who grunt with every stroke, I feel that I am inside a hernia testing center."
If you came here expecting me to be against video games, I'm sorry to disappoint you; I'm not against video games. Video games are one of my hobbies. But I do think tis important that video games, Internet, and television not be one's only form of fun and entertainment. Constant instant gratification is not good; you need time to think and imagine sometimes, you know?
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