I still think about the Jacob Geller video “Games, Schools, and Worlds Designed for Violence” sometimes. Like when I learned that all houses in the Zionist Entity are mandated to have bunkers, and that families often put cribs for their babies in these bunkers… Well, really, what the Hell does it do to your psyche to literally spend some of your earliest days in a space designed for war, to regularly practice for your whole life going into bunkers with childish art painted on the walls? It frankly probably does the same stuff to your psyche as schools in Seppoland designed around school shootings, where there’s a strange “lockdown” rhyme on the wall to help kids practice the procedure. It’s one of the many ways in which children are taught to see the world through a violent lens, to analyze spaces in terms of how they may be used for violence, to see violence as an omnipresent eventuality.
He’s the best video game reviewer because he chooses games that illustrate philosophical topics like this and uses them in the context of that topic instead of deriving the topic from the game.
Jacob Geller is amazing btw. The video is about the uncontrollable urge most men have to dig holes, and the movie Holes
I still think about the Jacob Geller video “Games, Schools, and Worlds Designed for Violence” sometimes. Like when I learned that all houses in the Zionist Entity are mandated to have bunkers, and that families often put cribs for their babies in these bunkers… Well, really, what the Hell does it do to your psyche to literally spend some of your earliest days in a space designed for war, to regularly practice for your whole life going into bunkers with childish art painted on the walls? It frankly probably does the same stuff to your psyche as schools in Seppoland designed around school shootings, where there’s a strange “lockdown” rhyme on the wall to help kids practice the procedure. It’s one of the many ways in which children are taught to see the world through a violent lens, to analyze spaces in terms of how they may be used for violence, to see violence as an omnipresent eventuality.
He’s the best video game reviewer because he chooses games that illustrate philosophical topics like this and uses them in the context of that topic instead of deriving the topic from the game.