Where Politics And Video Games Collide

The funny thing is our musicians and other artists have stood up and are fighting the group (I forget whats its called I think its the Canadian version of the RIAA or MPAA), that group is trying to change copyright laws in terms of downloading and p2p and artists are fighting that group.

Because downloading has brought many unknown artists with true talent into the limelight and artists are seeing that publishers and big studios are useless because they can produce and sell their music by themselves with the use of p2p, and the internet in general.

So yea our artists rock cuz they are fighting to keep p2p sharing and all that.


Truly in a couple of years even the CD will become obselete and all the big studios and recording companies will crash and burn into the ground because they cannot compete. It's cheaper for an artist to distribute their music by themselves. In the past before internet you needed someone to distribute your music and market it and advertise it, that is quickly becoming useless.


So the music industry is just fighting a losing battle. The television industry is going through a similar downfall. People especially those of the younger demographic are turning away from TV in mass numbers and getting their media and entertainment content from the web.


Why do you think there is so many American Idol-like reality shows, they serve the aging baby boomers. These shows put the old age groups in positions of authority [judges] and the younger people below them. A characteristic that appeals to baby boomers. A great example of a show for that is that new one about Grease.

Nobody from the younger generation was old enough to have seen Grease when it came out, although I suspect many of us have seen it at one time or another. But it's just a movie to us and doesn't mean the same thing it meant to people who were teens when they saw it.





I read an interesting article (or part of it) about all that I mentioned above and about the three generations the Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y [current 18-29] generation.

The Baby Boomers which are constitute the majority of politicians grew up without video games and there fore video games are uncomfortable with them. It is a rarity to find a baby boomer that actively plays games.

Then theres the Gen X ers, they were in their 20s when gaming started picking up, so even though theres more of them playing video games now its still a small amount because they didn't grow up with them.

Then there is us the Gen Y's, we grew up around games, born in the the 80's and 90s, we saw the evolution of games and have included them as part of our lives. We are comfortable with them.



The point of stating the obvious above, is to predict when games will not be seen as contraband or something evil but as art and entertainment.

First all the pro-gaming organization's such as the ECA will have the toughest fights in the war with the current baby-boomer generation of politicians although this generation is decreasing in political presence. Then they will have to fight the Gen X'ers for quite a long time, until the current generation starts to get a sizable force of representatives in politics and final when the Gen X'ers are also gone.

Then we can finally start to enjoy a golden age in new media, and gaming. But by then the Generation Z [which are currently children and preteens] will probably have some new and radical form of entertainment which we will look down upon and call it immoral and a bad influence on children....and basically perpetuate the cycle.

Oh well.