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Why do people like video games so much?
Why do people of all ages like video games so much? The answer is easy: if you die, you are reborn and can live again. And in the games where you don't die, you get to reinvent yourself as you wish - what could be more attractive than this combination of death, rebirth, and resurrection?
Each day we are faced with death in many forms overt and subtle. Statistically speaking, the most dangerous place in the world for each of us is being in our bathrooms and kitchens, though death is not the most likely outcome of the dangers presented by both. All you have to do is watch television and you'll be presented with expensive, expertly made reports and entertainment focusing on the the dangers of home invasions, walking down the street, riding in a vehicle, going to school or work or to the store - lions and tigers and bears, Oh My!
But when you play a video game, you're sitting in the relative inviolate safety of your home in a comfortable seat. You're not hungry or if you are you can easily get something to eat or drink. You plunge into a world created by some of our world's most creative and technically advanced people who had only one desire - to create a video game that you would enjoy becoming a part of.
And that brings us to the most talked about reason why video games are more profitable than movies and amusement parks - because they're all about you, the gamer, that's why. If you have your choice of exercising your creativity in a virtual world using tools designed by some of the real world's most creative people or sitting passively and watching the wasteland that is all too much of television and movies, what are you going to choose?
To Amy and me, creativity is a form of spirituality for when we creatively respond to challenges of any nature we are giving our spirit its fullest expression other than when we love and/or are compassionate. Art is when we love the process of creating as much or more so than what we end up creating.
In a world where there' so much hopelessness in the news regarding our politicians and their totally warped view of our reality and the threats to it, and where our schools put art, creativity, intuition, and what is real about human history at the bottom of their curriculum is it any wonder that so many say "I'm out of here, if only for a few hours. Time to enter an alternate reality of my favorite video game where I know beyond doubt that death is an illusion because I've died in this game a hundred times today!"
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