That’s some­thing you guys absolutely need to know! ATTENTION: Fail­ure to com­ply with these rules will put our whole soci­ety in great dan­ger! I hope I’ve got your atten­tion now so go forth try to fol­low the rules as shown in this vid

If you don’t, all hell breaks loose.

… seems to be the one and only answer for ever more peo­ple in this world. Recent hap­pen­ings all over the world, at least in First World coun­tries, indi­cate a grow­ing trend towards going postal among youths. Know what’s so ironic? I tell you: There are dozens of peo­ple look­ing for an answer, look­ing for the moti­va­tion behind, but they fail to see because they ask the wrong ques­tions. One can’t blame bru­tal video games because it’s con­ve­nient to do so. There are hun­dreds of stud­ies prov­ing that there’s way more to it than a sim­ple first per­son shooter. Nowa­days, I’m a casual gamer and I still like games like Prey, Half-Life, Doom, Quake, God of War, etc. These games are con­sid­ered as bru­tal killer games that depict bloody violence.

Accord­ing to some politi­cians, such games should be com­pletely banned. Obvi­ously, these fools only try to make a name for them­selves and, in con­se­quence, win some votes. I can imag­ine that many rel­a­tives of vic­tims, shocked par­ents, and some self-proclaimed pro­tec­tors of our youth are prone to fall for that illu­sion of secu­rity. The very same peo­ple seem to abhor any vio­lence at all but vio­lence in words and they tend to think that play­ing these games fre­quently trans­lates into train­ing a per­son to over­come the psy­cho­log­i­cal resis­tance to killing another human being.

So, why are peo­ple ignor­ing the obvi­ous facts? Because they’re hard to acknowl­edge if you’re part of this root of all evil. I don’t think it’s easy to admit that there are seri­ous flaws in the edu­ca­tional sys­tem or that you neglected your parental duties. Fur­ther­more, there must be a rea­son why most of these mas­sacres take place at school. Can you think of any rea­son? I’ll bet you sure can if you only think hard enough. There are always peo­ple try­ing to sub­due oth­ers, try­ing to estab­lish a clear hier­ar­chi­cal struc­ture with one alpha/prime male. That’s human nature and not some­thing we can get rid of in a few thou­sand years. Pri­mal instincts can’t be bred out in such a small time and that’s why we like this dis­guise of cul­ti­va­tion so much. Indeed, if not for our human val­ues – what’s there to sep­a­rate us from animals?

Well, pupils do have seri­ous prob­lems. That’s a fact peo­ple, first of all par­ents, need to acknowl­edge. Peo­ple, espe­cially youths, also tend to use more and more vio­lence to stand their ground in their daily/weekly/monthly fights for their place in the afore­men­tioned social struc­ture. It’s even worse if you don’t fit into it at all, be it by choice or by design. I’m dead sure most par­ents don’t know about their offspring’s adven­tures at school, that their chil­dren are humil­i­ated and abused by oth­ers. Some­times I won­der if some par­ents care at all. Either way, nobody talks about it and the whole sit­u­a­tion quickly becomes a taboo. Just to get back to those oh so bru­tal video/computer games – there isn’t even one frelling game out there that depicts vio­lence as bloody, accu­rate, and exten­sive as many movies do.

If it wasn’t so sad I’d laugh my ass off. Right here, right now. Ever won­dered why so many “killer pupils” wear sun­glasses and black leather coats? Any­body? I won’t blame Matrix for it, don’t worry. Even if they do wear sun glasses which only serve to hide most of their feel­ings. Ah, it’s no use, isn’t it? Most par­ents won’t go and check on their chil­dren because some mis­led, mis­er­able feel­ing youths decided to end their lives which were, at least on their account, with­out per­spec­tive. Parental con­trol? Media com­pe­tency? For most par­ents these terms could as well be non-existent for all they know about them. The social envi­ron­ment as a whole is very impor­tant for our kids. It alters their per­cep­tion, it forms them as they grow up, when they finally leave their fan­tasy world and clash heads with real­ity. It’s no easy time for par­ents and kids alike.

Don’t let that hap­pen to your child(s). See that you know what’s going on, talk to your kid(s) and, please, don’t dis­miss their con­cerns as incon­se­quen­tial. If you do, you may one day expe­ri­ence the loss of your kid(s). Even more, you would’ve to live with all the blame because deep inside you knew – and you did nothing.