"DOOM" MADE ME DO IT!!!

     I know I've already partially covered this is in my teenager rant, but this was
so damned stupid I just *HAD* to unleah my poison on it.  This problem has already 
reared its ugly head in our society many, many times before, in a variety of ways.
However, every time it did, the monster's head was sliced off before it could grow
powerful enough on paranoia and idiocy to consume the First Amendment.  But with the
rash of school shootings along with a tidal wave of so-called "experts" willing to
float any bullshit theory as long as it gives them attention, the monster is growing
stronger faster than ever before.  How long before it grows so powerful, it consumes
the Constitution itself in its flames?
      Lately, a bunch of prudish, tight-assed, dry-boxed mother's groups have gotten
all up in a huff about video game violence.  I know, I know, they tried this shit 
with Mortal Kombat already, and all it did was institute a ratings system that no one
looks at anyway (c'mon, who in the hell's gonna card you for buying a video game?!?),
and pump up the infamy of that particular game beyond belief.  I mean, really, it was
just your average fighting game, with a lousy difficulty and a typical cast.  The only
difference was the blood, and the fatalities.  Admittedly, being able to rip a guy's
still-beating heart out of his chest *IS* pretty cool ...
      But I digress.  The point is, the mother's groups have been trying to claim 
that the violence in video games is what caused the Littleton kids to start blasting.
Never mind the fact that they were shunned, derided, and rejected by their peers.
Never mind the fact that they were mentally unstable already, and on medication.  
Never mind that 99% of the teenage population has probably played Mortal Kombat, and
are fine.  No, no, no, it *MUST* be the video games that are enciting the violence.
After all, violence didn't exist before video games, right?  Cain really killed Abel
when the turnip-growing bastard wouldn't let him borrow his copy of Duke Nukem 3D.
      I wouldn't be so annoyed if it wasn't the same moronic, whiny groups attacking
the gaming industry, like they've no doubt been doing ever since that red-suited 
plumber started jumping on those poor, defenseless Goomba's heads.  But what really
annoys the shit out of me is the fact that recently a military expert compared the
uber-popular game "Doom" to a military simulator designed to train soldiers to be
merciless, cold-blooded killers.  By "desensitizing" video gamers to violence, it 
makes us more likely to haul off and start shooting up a classroom.  Uhhh, *YEAH*.
And of course, they wave the fact that the Littleton shooters played Doom.  They
conveniently ignored the fact that Doom is one of the highest-selling computer 
games in history, and has spawned numerous versions on most console systems.  Simply
put, if everyone who played Doom was affected to the point where they haul off and
shoot somebody, there would be nobody left living on the planet!  
      Simply put, if seeing a demon's chest explode in a hail of blood from your
shotgun blast is enough to drive you over the edge, there was something fucked up
about you to begin with.  Of course, us modern Americans can't hear that anymore.
We want to have a nice, pat answer-oh, it was the videogames, the movies, the 
pornography.  We want to think that it's these things that turn a teenager into a
cold-blooded killer, and not the fact that they were treated like piles of shit by
their peers and the very system that claims to try to protect them.  Well, I'm
sorry, but that's absolute bullshit.  And while you may be able to make it not look
like shit, smell like shit, or even TASTE like shit, it's still shit.
       Of course, even being treated like shit isn't enough to turn one into a 
psycho.  I've been treated like that for most of my life, and I'm pretty balanced,
all things considered.  You think Bill Gates was never called a queer in high 
school, or that the president of Intel Inside never got a wedgie?  No, it's some-
thing else, some twisted element that sets them off.  And while we don't know what
it is yet, blaming it on the video games they play, the shows they watch, or the
music they listen to, is just leading us on a wild goose chase, with the destruction
of everything our forefathers fought and died for waiting at the end.
       Stay Hungry.
       ---The Anarkist