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Angry Birds

12/31/2012

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Click on this homicidal bird and go to its homepage.
Angry Birds:  a game in which Genocide and Suicide Bombing are how one wins the game.

Birds catapult into buildings in order to destroy the Pigs who have been stealing their eggs.  Black Birds explode and White Birds drop exploding eggs.    

Let's not forget, also, that this is also fueled by revenge--the birds are "angry"---and destruction without a sense of justice is the aim.  It's about the thrill of wrecking havoc.

Angry Birds is a child of 9/11.  And it is one of the most popular games out there.

Am I the only one who finds this disturbing?  I've never played it; I don't feel the desire to play at suicide bombing.  And I would never tell other people not to.  After all, the desire for murder and suicide lay within us all.


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Pain and Empathy

12/27/2012

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An overload of psychological trauma can numb a person to pain in themselves and others, leading them to abandon empathy and dissociate...

We numb ourselves to psychological traumas, including emotional isolation, but in disconnecting from others, we’re also disconnecting from ourselves.  Dissociative personality disorders and psychosis where the unconscious internal voice wants something different than the conscious mind are symptomatic of societies where this self-against-self divide is strongest. As professor Will Hooker from North Carolina State University states, “Ethics in the past cared more for the community. Our ethics today care more for the individual.” Societal solutions to ending this addictive pattern of separateness and improving the mental environment could include simple acts that promote empathy and compassion (traits that would be valued and encouraged by a healthy society), such as helping ourselves through helping others, or observing how similar a stranger’s needs are to our own.

Read more: http://www.utne.com/mind-body/youth-suicide-prevention-zm0z13jfzwil.aspx?page=2#ixzz2GIfwUlEE
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    REVOLUTION

    This has nothing to do with Batman.

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