While I am personally inclined to agree with your point of view, I am reminded of the words to an old Bob Dylan song from the 1960s.
Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.
I have a nephew who is a librarian in a large library system who specializes in "graphic novels" that are little more than the comic books I read as a child in the 1940s. He contends some of the most original stories for children and youth are found in graphic novels. I find him difficult to argue with. In fact, I find myself avidly following one online graphic novel.
While I find the EA President's remarks somewhat puerile and strongly self-serving, who is to say games are not a logical extensions of the fairy tales of old? If they are, then the content and plot of too many of these games should give all of us pause to consider the future with children and youth who have grown up with this kind of amoral, blood splashed,
literature(?).
