" 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