Where Politics And Video Games Collide

After reviewing the lyrics and listening to the song...3 times (damn you rap grammar -_-) I don't find the song anti-game. I find its not about games at all in the end, it seems to me it focus more on youth crimes involving guns including school shootings and mugging (of a candy store in this instance). Its also playing the children soldiers issue not uncommon but unfortunately as arowe87 stated its not in the news because the OUR-North America's, Britain...etc.-governments can't go to war with such a shaky concept for several reasons.

But first: this ISN'T an attack on the states they're just the easiest example...if it seems like an attack on the states to you I apologize. The first is international backlash: its considered deplorable but is accepted in Africa so it would be further proof of the United Sates' government trying to "police the world" bad for publicity. As a seed of the first people feed up with this "police the world" thing the United States is viewed to have in place could lead to attacks on the Untied States when they REALLY couldn't take it. This would leave the country vulnerable to dissidents (see Napoleon's early rule of France) which would only increase due to the final reason; the children you're supposedly saving are fighting and dying. This leads to the appearance to the global community as hypocritical and well...you get the picture.

For the above reasons its easier for the government to simply sweep issues like that under the rug. Alright this is getting long so I'm going to wrap up with this statement: The addition of the video game verse was likely to force people to think of issues like this by garnering public interest even if it required a slight breach of ethics to do it.