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Violence is Treated Like a
Video Game in Our Culture!
Violence is treated like a video game in our culture! And the video game mentality of 'just-hit-the-resent-button' makes it seem like you can solve problems using violence—then just hit the reset button—and solve problems using violence again!
So, that is how phrases like 'Light it up!' started being used while people were being killed in the real world, just like it is a "real-life video game." And that is directly correlated to the video that Chelsea Manning (formerly, Private Bradley Manning) was a whistleblower about, where you could hear "Light it up!" being exclaimed before violent acts were committed against people...
...And I believe this video-game-violence mentality is being created intentionally, by our culture, in order to condition video game players to not feel emotions for, or compassion toward, those whom these video game players are going to use real weapons against, someday, in the real world—when "they grow up" and can too easily purchase weapons—as if, to these violent video game players, the victims of violence are merely characters in a video game!
-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Poet, Artist and Philosopher)
"I am the poet who thinks that he knows it!"
My Writing About Using Violence For Problem Solving: Violence DOES NOT SOLVE problems! Violence ONLY CREATES problems! –Paul Whiting (written July 12th, 2014 and revised September 1st, 2022)
My Writing About How Using Violence To Solve Problems Is Treated Like A Video Game In Our Culture: Violence is treated like a video game in our culture! And that video game mentality of 'just-hit-the-resent-button' makes it seem like you can solve problems using violence—then just hit the reset button—and solve problems using violence again! –Paul Whiting (written April 21st, 2015, revised October 20th, 2021 and revised October 3rd, 2022)
My Philosophical Notes:
The reason that I wrote this prose can be summed up with the following statement: "Violence is treated like a video game in our culture! So, that is how phrases like 'Light it up!' start being used while killing other people in the real world, just like it is a 'real-life video game.' And that is directly correlated with regard to the video that Chelsea Manning (formerly, Private Bradley Manning) was a whistleblower about..."
And this prose was also published on my "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blog (please see the hyperlink below for the blog), since I feel that the message in this prose applies to the message that I am trying to convey through "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer."
This prose was written in Portland, Oregon.
-Paulee
https://paulwhitingwriting.blogspot.com
This "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" Post No. 100 was edited on January 31st, 2023.
"Prose is using all of the words that are necessary in order to describe all that is necessary to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]
