V-Games

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Sep 8 13:44:55 PDT 2000


" Conversely, the Leftwing charge of decadence ignores the fact that videogames are not a luxury for wealthy elites, but are if anything more

accessible to the masses than cinema or television."

Haven't most leftists come to see that as a social category "decadence" is not very useful in describing capitalist societies? Societies within tributary modes of production might "decay," but that organic metaphor simply doesn't fit capitalist society.

Carrol



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