> ...the PS1 turned most young people into gamers and gained mass approval.
Mass approval is a means of consensual intellectual deference. Mass media is perfectly made to broadcast these messages.
The story's always the same: $NEW_MEDIA is harmful, and the domain of ill-adjusted individuals. Until, of course, a vague future when it isn't, even though nothing has changed. No mention is made of the errors in perception made in the past: "we've always been accepting of gaming."
Pop culture can only exist in the present. It cannot bring itself to look back in time, for in doing so it'd have to confront it's mistakes and ephemeralness.
Mass approval is a means of consensual intellectual deference. Mass media is perfectly made to broadcast these messages.
The story's always the same: $NEW_MEDIA is harmful, and the domain of ill-adjusted individuals. Until, of course, a vague future when it isn't, even though nothing has changed. No mention is made of the errors in perception made in the past: "we've always been accepting of gaming."
Pop culture can only exist in the present. It cannot bring itself to look back in time, for in doing so it'd have to confront it's mistakes and ephemeralness.