On Jun 17, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Dennis Redmond wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> I was never big on that, but these days I'm just feeling sort of
>> resigned. Sometimes it seems like they've won and it's just fucking
>> hopeless.
>
> I often feel videogames were invented precisely as an antidote to that
> hopelessness -- because narrating that despair breaks its spell. Maybe
> no other art-form is so closely tied to transnational capitalism, and
> for that very reason, can be its harshest critic.
Just curious. Is it despair or 'fucking hopeless'ness that prompts you to feel that way often?
How does the antidote work and/or how do you employ it?