More unpopular stuff about free speech in art, meaning violence in video games for one thing. Sorry.
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in one view, I think the “normal,” view, the church is the opiate of the masses, which assumes humankind left to its own devices would be less civilized and more violent without this sedative prescription.
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Corollary to this is a model of a pressure valve, that things like sports and adventure and horror films and games allow some vent to the suppressed violence, thus prolonging the periods of peace between the wars.
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Right? Y’all familiar with these ideas?
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This makes a certain amount of sense, considering the long history of thought humankind has, right, thought and experience, thousands of years of war, with localized intermissions? So go ahead, let off some steam, right?
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Except that long history doesn’t include #Evolution, does it? And there really hasn’t been an audit of human thought since Wallace and Darwent, TM, has there?
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These safe outlets fool your organism or you wouldn’t feel them, that’s the point of them.
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You wouldn’t get the very real adrenaline and cortisol rushes if they didn’t fool your body and so this is the environment your organism is evolving for and adapting to.
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The Good Guys in that debate, the pro video game, pro free speech ones are modern majority sorts, and see no harm, because they don’t see evolution, only #NTPsychology, where negative influences can be negated with positive ones that may never be forthcoming.
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Of course the bad guys in that debate are NTs too and when they run things the media is full of the same horrors except they’re real.
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No pithy ending, just saying, in the real world, “pressure valves,” are just pressure.
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#AutisticScience
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