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[Apr 30, 2012, 09:51 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

CNET Australia - Anders Breivik, video games and the militarisation of society.
Both critics and supporters of games and gaming, it seems, are unable or unwilling to address the big picture: that Western societies are undergoing a process of militarisation.

Militarisation is the social process through which societies are organised in ways that allow for the production of violence. According to the feminist writer Cynthia Enloe, militarisation describes a process through which individuals come to view militaristic ideas and military needs as being significant and the norm.

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Apr 30, 2012, 16:02

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Cutter wrote on Apr 30, 2012, 11:04: The author needs to read more history. This is nothing new. And like everything else in life, it's cyclical. In fact, all that militarization has already been declining the last few years an continues to do so. Even the dumbest, staunchest military supporter realizes that a military is of no use if there's nothing to protect. Couple with all those people leaving the military and the focus becomes spending on jobs, education, infrastructure, etc. where it should be. To be fair, there is one sector that is militarizing that spooks me and that's law enforcement. There are police forces with tanks and missile launchers and high-end military weaponry. Military contractors pump hundreds of millions of dollars a year in high-end military equipment for pennies on the dollar to police departments. The Occupy movement crackdowns showed, among other things, that police are having the same difficulties with social unrest that the military does because more and more police are equipped with military weaponry. Links to what I'm talking about: Salon The Atlantic Forbes

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Comment [quote="Flatline"Apr 30, 2012, 16:02][quote="Cutter"Apr 30, 2012, 11:04]The author needs to read more history. This is nothing new. And like everything else in life, it's cyclical. In fact, all that militarization has already been declining the last few years an continues to do so. Even the dumbest, staunchest military supporter realizes that a military is of no use if there's nothing to protect. Couple with all those people leaving the military and the focus becomes spending on jobs, education, infrastructure, etc. where it should be. [/quote] To be fair, there is one sector that is militarizing that spooks me and that's law enforcement. There are police forces with tanks and missile launchers and high-end military weaponry. Military contractors pump hundreds of millions of dollars a year in high-end military equipment for pennies on the dollar to police departments. The Occupy movement crackdowns showed, among other things, that police are having the same difficulties with social unrest that the military does because more and more police are equipped with military weaponry. Links to what I'm talking about: [url=http://www.salon.com/2011/11/08/our_militarized_police_forces] Salon[/url] [url=http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/11/cops-with-machine-guns-how-the-war-on-terror-has-militarized-the-police/248047/] The Atlantic [/url] [url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/bradlockwood/2011/11/30/the-militarizing-of-local-police/]Forbes [/url] [/quote]

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