Blog response to Yeh's "The Bad influence"

I couldn't help but completely agree with your outlook on this matter. On several occasions I have talked with many individuals who could not carry on a complete conversation due to a lack of public socialization. As I try and communicate with young men and women I find myself lost in their ideas being that I grew up playing outdoors as a kid and had very little Atari or Nintendo time indoors. Though I hope this doesn’t outdate me, I do hope it paints an understanding on how much I am into video games. As I witnessed in the long run a few of my cousins who played video games on a regular basis, I found a huge difference in how we have lived our lives. As they were constantly in and out of trouble, I stayed away from trouble for the most part as much as possible. If you were to compare our “rap sheets” you would understand the trouble I talk about getting into was nothing close to what they would get into. The video game world these days in my opinion have allowed kids to focus more on technology to get by than the regular necessities that the real world requires. I would like to admit when it comes to the patriot songs you mention, I have used those on many occasions myself to do exactly what you describe. Most often though it’s not necessarily patriot songs as much as heavy metal music which gets the adrenaline pumping.