One thing about people today is they frequently try and find a scapegoat onto which to push societies problems. Media attacks different parts of itself in order to feel more valid. Games come under attack frequently nowadays, ten years ago it was movies, ten years before that music. But the root of the problem isn't in the media, it's in how we view the world and what world views we project onto the inheriting generations. We started many generations with war, but the first generation that was born to bitterness in war was the generation dubbed Generation "X" Parents and other Adults were talking about the audacity of the crimes committed in Vietnam. We projected a self loathing onto them, of course they rebelled, and began to hate government. From there we have only escalated. Pride is being replaced with frustration, general love with animosity.
War isn't to blame, though. It's how people handle that war. In the mid 40's as a kid you heard of heroes fighting for freedom, fighting for the oppressed. We were allies in a fight against a true evil. Then we went to war with people who wanted the same thing. We made ourselves the villains, many media outlets painted us as the aggressor, they made us into the monster. This is where the outcries came from, to put a stop to the heartless beast consuming us. But we clearly still had heart, or there wouldn't have been such an outcry. As time went on though, we acclimated ourselves to being the bad guys, and instead of rallying in pride of being better a now jaded and frustrated generation sought no justice from their leaders.
They watched silently as we justified attacks on innocent countries because of what a minority had done to them. They saw what was happening and accepted it as a part of their society. Our acclimation to this decent came from somewhere, and I can tell you that isn't not the Movies, or Games, or Music that did it. Those are a symptom of the new way of thinking. We don't become desensitized to violence from video games, desensitization happens when we accept what is happening around us as part of the world. "People die," is a tragically common thing I hear nowadays. We have lost our will to fight for peace and now fight for decency.
