by PriamNevhausten » Fri Oct 19, 2007 1:26 pm
Hahaha. They think something will happen if they just yell loudly enough.
Two things have voice in politics. Fear, and money. If the population of supporters of video games outnumbers those in such fierce opposition of computerized entertainment to such a degree that any politician not pandering to the gaming crowd risks his political career then they will vote in favor of freedom of gaming as the market demands. This is not going to happen.
On the other hand, if people in support of digital interactive entertainment organize themselves and form a lobbying group with sufficient financial clout, politicians will listen as they open their mouths to receive money from mama bird.
Jaded? Maybe. But that's the way shit is done in America, like it or not. Lobbying groups are huge, and to sit at their table you have to play their game.
"You haven't told me what I'm looking for."
"Anything that might be of interest to Slitscan. Which is to say, anything that might be of interest to Slitscan's audience. Which is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."
--Colin Laney and Kathy Torrance, William Gibson's Idoru