More Evidence That They Just Don’t Get It

[g5000]

Okay, after wading through a lot of different font sizes, colors, and rants on various sites, here is my takeaway:

Participation is voluntary. Which is good.

Nonetheless, government encouraging what it thinks is the best direction for anything, much less entertainment, is very dangerous ground.


I kind of chuckled at the Opening Post saying the market should decide which way the entertainment industry should go. This is the market which gave us reality TV, right?

I suffer from cognitive dissonance when the faction which protects all the best ideals ends up with television shows which bring out the very worst in people. All the seven deadly sins are celebrated on these shows. Actually rewarded.

Something is broken, for sure. I agree the government is not the cure, but GODDAM, something is seriously broken!!

 

[PoliticalChic]

Okay, after wading through a lot of different font sizes, colors, and rants on various sites, here is my takeaway:

Participation is voluntary. Which is good.

Nonetheless, government encouraging what it thinks is the best direction for anything, much less entertainment, is very dangerous ground.


I kind of chuckled at the Opening Post saying the market should decide which way the entertainment industry should go. This is the market which gave us reality TV, right?

I suffer from cognitive dissonance when the faction which protects all the best ideals ends up with television shows which bring out the very worst in people. All the seven deadly sins are celebrated on these shows. Actually rewarded.

Something is broken, for sure. I agree the government is not the cure, but GODDAM, something is seriously broken!!

Psssst....at least up to this moment, you are not forced to watch every one of the shows....

In my town, we have libraries.....books.....
....let's keep this news our secret, you know, away from the Obama folks.....

 

[Uncensored2008]

This is a joke, right?

There's no video game czar right?

Constance Steinkuehler?

Phonetically, Constant Stink Hole-er?

It could very well be a joke.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Not so much a Bush thing as a "not exclusively Obama thing"



Having a say in the industry is better than not having a say in it, huh?

What you CONZ seem to fail to understand is that when government gets involved regulating an industry, it's for the PUBLIC GOOD, as the PUBLIC GOOD is NOT in the charter of private business. MAKING MONEY is.

And you leftist are there to make sure people don't make money - or rather that money made is funneled to the right hands.

You DO know there's a MARKET for child porn, right?

Of course, but this isn't about YOU.

Are you for the free market when it comes to child porn too? Or would you like government regulation and enforcement?

Bad news, when you get out, you're going to the halfway house.

There's a happy medium.

Which is the control of the means of production by the state, right?

IGNORING an industry isn't an answer.
Besides, who will be the first and loudest to scream if someone in the middle east comes out with a "fly the planes into the WTC game" huh?

Already been done, stupid.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-ESQK6L9-o]Just Cause 2 Flying Huge Plane into Building!! - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Moonglow]

nothing new, the govt. has tried to encourage educational media for decades. But do spout your politicism of just Obama

 

[Valox]

This is a joke, right?

There's no video game czar right?

This is what I thought too and was a bit flabbergasted. It is a bit hyperbolic, but close on the money. Constance Steinkuehler hold a Senior Policy Analyst at the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President.

According to Wiki, The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is an office in the Executive Office of the President (EOP), established by Congress on May 11, 1976, with a broad mandate to advise the President on the effects of science and technology on domestic and international affairs.
Office of Science and Technology Policy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In addition, Constance recently received a private $350,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation to Review and Research on Games and Learning. Financial support for research to examine learning associated with videogame play across multiple domains, and the development of reports and convenings to share the findings of research on games. The purpose of the project is to support research and reports that advance understanding among policymakers, practitioners and civic leaders of the role of games in learning.
http://website.education.wisc.edu/steinkuehler/blog/papers/SteinkuehlerCV.pdf

Bravo...for researching the office and nailing it to the Executive.

Obama's expansion of the office echoes the work of FDR, who informed the 'imperial presidency' and placed dozens of agencies under the executive.

This from "FDR Goes To War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, And Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America," by Burton W. Folsom Jr. and Anita Folsom, which goes into great detail about FDR's unbalancing the three branches.

FDR used WWII to promote his agenda of the welfare state, global intervention as foreign policy, and the dominance of the President on our political system.

This is, no doubt, a model for this President.

I am familiar with FDR's attempt to stack the SCOTUS in an attempt to unbalance the three branches of government. However, I am not sure I fully understand your tangent.

This office stems back to JFK. From Wiki, The current OSTP grew out of the Office of Science and Technology which was formed in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy to provide advice and recommendation in response to the growing importance of space exploration and the accelerating Space Race that was taking place with the USSR.
Office of Science and Technology Policy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Again, I am not sure I understand your tangent, but this exemplifies how government agencies, once created, don't go away even when their original purpose has gone completely astray.

 

[PoliticalChic]

This is what I thought too and was a bit flabbergasted. It is a bit hyperbolic, but close on the money. Constance Steinkuehler hold a Senior Policy Analyst at the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President.

According to Wiki, The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is an office in the Executive Office of the President (EOP), established by Congress on May 11, 1976, with a broad mandate to advise the President on the effects of science and technology on domestic and international affairs.
Office of Science and Technology Policy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In addition, Constance recently received a private $350,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation to Review and Research on Games and Learning. Financial support for research to examine learning associated with videogame play across multiple domains, and the development of reports and convenings to share the findings of research on games. The purpose of the project is to support research and reports that advance understanding among policymakers, practitioners and civic leaders of the role of games in learning.
http://website.education.wisc.edu/steinkuehler/blog/papers/SteinkuehlerCV.pdf

Bravo...for researching the office and nailing it to the Executive.

Obama's expansion of the office echoes the work of FDR, who informed the 'imperial presidency' and placed dozens of agencies under the executive.

This from "FDR Goes To War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, And Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America," by Burton W. Folsom Jr. and Anita Folsom, which goes into great detail about FDR's unbalancing the three branches.

FDR used WWII to promote his agenda of the welfare state, global intervention as foreign policy, and the dominance of the President on our political system.

This is, no doubt, a model for this President.

I am familiar with FDR's attempt to stack the SCOTUS in an attempt to unbalance the three branches of government. However, I am not sure I fully understand your tangent.

This office stems back to JFK. From Wiki, The current OSTP grew out of the Office of Science and Technology which was formed in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy to provide advice and recommendation in response to the growing importance of space exploration and the accelerating Space Race that was taking place with the USSR.
Office of Science and Technology Policy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Again, I am not sure I understand your tangent, but this exemplifies how government agencies, once created, don't go away even when their original purpose has gone completely astray.

Expansion....that is what government of the Left is all about.

Is a Czar of Video Games a logical extension of the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President?



"There seem to be only two ironclad rules of government:
Rule no.1: Always try to expand;
Rule no. 2: see Rule no. 1."
Beck, Balfe, “Broke,” p. 115