BE Ch4 video for children

[Joseph Tracy]

There is a kind of juxtaposition in CH 4 of video fare for 2 generations  of kids moving from the Brady Bunch to Maxines kids and Fiona watching  The Aggro Hour  featuring
 "The Contaminator, in civilian life a kid who’s obsessively neat about always making his bed and picking up his room but who, when out on duty as TC, becomes a lonely fighter for justice who goes around strewing garbage through disagreeable government agencies, greedy corporations, even entire countries nobody likes much, rerouting waste lines, burying his antagonists beneath mountains of toxic grossness.”, 
 and then grabduating to a” bloodless" video game with " a first-person shooter, with a generous range of weaponry in a cityscape that looks a lot like New York.”
This gets real disturbing when the 1st object of the shooter/hero? is a woman whose 'crime' is stealing fruit and eating it. On the first day of US airstrikes in Afghanistan 2 UN peaceworkers were killed. I assume they were blown to bits bloodlessly since they left no more stain on the american conscience than the woman fruit thief left on Giuliani’s sidewalks.

I have a Chinese American friend who occasioned a cafe I liked, He had a display of photos showing there  when we first met and  I talked with him about them .  We drifted to politics and he told me he had worked for Jim Leher and one of his jobs was to sort through gulf war 2 photos/footage to make sure nothing too graphically bloody got in, nothing that might make US soldiers look bad. 

Drone strikes grew in favor immensely under Obama having the same quality of invisibility, and because it had the appeal of a game we were ‘winning’, never mind that the Taliban by that time controlled  most of the country and the Northern alliance were brutal where they ruled.

Kids play fighting games; it is part of survival skills, part of processing incomng information about the world, but in a real world where very few humans carry guns or fight in wars should there be a more thoughtful way to consider the games we allow,  different proportions in our entertainment diet?  I have no easy answers, but it seems to me that there is an ugly feedback loop between fantasy life and how people I know behave, how they think about answers to problems, to differences. 

Martial arts make a lot of sense to me especially if the training includes the wisdom of restraint and de-escalation. But my thoughts are faltering and I will leave off.