Video Games and Its Hierarchy of Participation

There's a difference between entertainment and true participation, he says. He argues that people are hypnotized by video games because they have to condense so many things into a universe which can be grasped. The same with movies the difficulty is you know our world is upside down but we think culture is movies like dancing or watching ballet right? "You're going to survive in this world if you simply renounce your passions," John writes.

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