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Date Posted: 20:04:35 11/28/99 Sun
Author: AM
Subject: Re: Video, violence, and the net
In reply to: Max 's message, "Video, violence, and the net" on 17:00:48 11/26/99 Fri



We from almost everything we see and do.

Training consists of learning the best way
to do something, like shoot a gun, and then
repetion of the correct process, so that if
you ever have to do it 'for real' it just
happens, correctly, automatically.

On the G-man show this week he interviewed
I guy who had been part of a gun training
school for police. The process was : they
would shoot at targets, unload their guns,
( and to keep the range clean ) put the
brass in their pockets, reload, and repeat
the drill, over and over.

Later on the job, some of the folks who were
trained there were involved in gunbattles
where they had to reload and continue fighting.
When the fight was over, the guys had a pocket
full of spent brass.

Be careful how you train yourself for that is
what you will do in a situation where you just
mostly react and don't have time to think.

Exposing your mind, over and over, to these games
and stuff, including tv, is training. I suspect
that when they are faced with a real world situation,
that is similar to the game, they will respond the
same way they respond in the game.

We should be aware that we are constantly training
ourselves,and we should be careful to ensure that
we are learning the reactions we want to learn.

This stuff has potiental to be enormously useful.
I will start looking for good products that will
help me do things well.

But, I sure we'll bebombarded with a media mind
training seminar to react to this stuff with
horor and calls for regulation.

Is a video game that trains young minds to stalk
and kill, any more dangerous than the network
news, that trains minds to believe the crap they
are spewing, and react as though it were true ?

AM

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