I am ...

Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe. Walk middle, sooner or later... get squish just like grape.

This theory probably would work out pretty well if nobody would think that their side is better than the other side. Nowadays its better not to walk on the road at all.

... a ... am I sensitive to violence in games and movies?... no...
I don't think so... I don't feel the need to smash my co-workers head with my coffee cup nor the need to kill somebody with the scissors in my top drawer... Can I visualize how to do it? Yes, no problem - I've seen it dozens of times. Would I do it? Not in this lifetime.

But wait. Do you remember when you got so angry you smashed your fist against the wall? I wonder who taught you that, was it a movie? Your brother? New experiences create new possibilities, for you shape your being to what know.

Manhunt 2
By the end of this month, Manhunt 2 will be available in stores all over Europe. This 2nd installment of what is known als worlds' most violent game is probably the ultimate form of freedom of speech in video game history. Get ready to take your claw hammer and smash it into the head of a randomly chosen person. I would go for the person in green, because it reminds me of the school bully and my boss.

I have my own opinion about the heavy discussions about the pros and cons of all parties. Proven or not proven, I don't care. But do you see yourself as a person who thinks about these things? Yes? Then this discussion is not about you!
You are arguing with people who are the same. Thinkers. Now think about that.

About Manhunt (2), only one question is leading in my opinion:
Does explicit visual violence lower your shock level?

The first time I saw a dead pigeon next to the road I was shocked. Last week I had one flying against my car. I took a life. I didn't break. A selfish but natural act of self-defense. Me or the damn bird.
I don't care.

Does explicit visual violence lower your shock level? Definately.

Things change, morals change. Apparently empathic capacity changes too.

We teach our kids listen to trust the newsmedia, see the value of money, value your freedom of speech, think in boxes, smoking is bad. We are teaching our kids to walk on either side of the road, without thinking. Hopefully adults see the difference between fiction, reality, teachings and entertainment. But somewhere I highly doubt it. It's easier to exclamate that I - the individual - am not affected by this.

And when you are sure that 16 year old teenagers can make their own rational decisions? Think about Youtube violence, jackass imitations, group rape, babies in microwaves, drug overdoses, racism and other forms of extremisms. People are stupid and do need guidance.

Drinking alcohol, driving cars, mariage are all restricted by age through law's. But is that also an attack on our freedom of speech? Is driving a car a freedom of speech? Is there a difference with viewing and interacting violent games?

Censorship in the way of restricting another persons ability to speak their thoughts? No. But censorship in a way of protecting kids who until they have a clear judgement what's going on in the world... I don't know.


FoS Freaks
"Nineteen Eighty-Four!" is wat they scream. "You can't control what I do, watch, eat, think!"

The FoS (Freedom of Speech) Freaks value their own judgement and reject all that is trying to create an overall scheme. Get rid of pre-defined values and morals, pre-defined rules of engagement, pre-defined hierarchies. This Liberatarian point of view is often spoken of, but rarely understood.

It isn't in Human's capability to achieve an equillibrium in society. Not through a dictature, not through mind-reading super computers, not through 1001 hidden cameras or even some crazy drug that everybody is forced to take. Liberatarian's believe that this equillibrium is created through personal values, own judgement and the reduction of governments to only a minimum.

Will that ever happen? A society without greed, violence, envy and of course rules? I don't know, especially with our all-mighty monetaire belief-system. Mankind needs to be placed in boxes. It can't function without a pre-defined identity. It needs to fight. Needs to be jealous. Needs to be better. Needs to have more.

Even FoS Freaks have simply become a separate political flow which is just as anarchic as the hippies and punk subculture. A few visionaries and a lot of non-thinking followers, thinking in boxes. Exactly as their suit 'n tie wearing opposites.

'If we continue this way we'll end up like 1984!'

Stop quoting a book you haven't even read, stop quoting a book you've read but didn't understand and most of all, stop quoting a book that has politically absolutely no meaning. The book has been written by a polemic novelist looking for the boundaries in a fictous society. Use it as brain food, not as a bible.

That was once a right which was valued by the thinkers and writers, now has become a self-defense weapon against 'acting before thinking'.


Think. Act. Think. React.