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.
Ozmodan wrote on Apr 30, 2012, 10:37:
Now that is some truly way out thinking. Sorry I have to disagree, if anything, it is heading the opposite way. Sometimes you have to wonder how people make up these ideas and then actually believe in them.