We don’t play cowboys and indians anymore—not woke.
No more – Cowboys good guys
No more – Cowboys win
No more – sticks or fingers for guns
We play middle east, on video.
Video games are really real.
Search and shoot, clearing inside buildings, from building to building, just like the real thing.
Without an option to play this out in war, more kids and adults satisfy this conditioning in mass shootings.
And, with hundreds, thousands of hours gaming, many become expert ‘professionals’ remotely operating fast cars, planes, tanks, AND DRONES.
What could possibly be closer to the real thing.
Kids actually do well operating drones for real in the military.
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Thus, powerful, all-consuming addiction.
More time spent in the unreal world than the real world, leaves less connection and function in the real world where we must live.
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Everybody knew that playing ‘cowboys and indians’ was harmless pretending, even falling down to the ground for a time when you got ‘hit’.
Not so now—the lines are blurred between shooting and killing in pretend games, and shooting and killing in real life.
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Can this be changed in our culture ?
I don’t know.
Whatever your contacts with people, start saying something about things that aren’t right, to make a difference in someone’s life.
Then talk about actions that any of you can do.