Halo 3 is "The Third Wave of Destroying the USA"

[SirFozzie]

http://www.larouchepac.com/news/2007/09/26/halo-3-third-wave-destroying-u-s.html

Ok, 200 quatloos to anyone who can sum up with this guy's trying to say without simply saying.. "This guy's a whackalooon" or anything similar. I'm an equal opportunity mocker, but goddamn, this guy's using english words, but I don't think he's speaking English!

[Atocep]

http://www.larouchepac.com/news/2007/09/26/halo-3-third-wave-destroying-u-s.html

Ok, 200 quatloos to anyone who can sum up with this guy's trying to say without simply saying..

Young impressionable children are seeing video games at an early age and its destorying their minds. People are choosing to play video games rather than help solving the worlds problems. The US economy is falling apart.

In essensce its the same stuff we've been hearing since video games became a big thing he just uses bigger words and even stranger logic in how he applies it.

[Big Fo]

Damn, I didn't know Halo caused the Minnesota bridge collapse, Gulf War II, and the Virginia Tech massacre, where was Mizzou B-Ball fan with the news?

Wait - I also missed the part where the author compares himself to FDR, Kennedy, and Martin Luther King. Fantastic stuff.

[Ajaxab]

Fascinating that Plato had Socrates say the same thing about writing's corrupting of young minds. Look how that prognostication turned out. For someone with such a supposed understanding of history, this guy might do some research into the history of how new media technologies have always been received with this kind of skepticism.

[thesloppy]

Provider 1 bids 300 quatloos for the newcomers!

[lordscarlet]

Dude... It's Larouche... What exactly do you expect?

[st.cronin]

Fascinating that Plato had Socrates say the same thing about writing's corrupting of young minds. Look how that prognostication turned out. For someone with such a supposed understanding of history, this guy might do some research into the history of how new media technologies have always been received with this kind of skepticism.

Plato/Socrates critique of poets cannot be understood to be meant literally. I don't think that changes your point, though - there was certainly ample critique of poets for warping young minds in antiquity.

[rowech]

All about parenting...good parents pay attention to what their kids are playing and know their kids well enough to know if they can handle such games. Perhaps everyone here is in that position but there are certainly parent/kid combinations that are a recipe for disaster.

[stevew]

I must admit, it is a bit alarming that at 3am on a school night you'll find several hundred thousand people playing Halo. And the whole eastern seaboard will be lit up as well.

And what's with Xbox live and angry teenage white kids? They all sound the same, I swear I play vs the same 4 white kid voices all the time, but the user tags are always different.

[Anthony]

I must admit, it is a bit alarming that at 3am on a school night you'll find several hundred thousand people playing Halo. And the whole eastern seaboard will be lit up as well.

And what's with Xbox live and angry teenage white kids? They all sound the same, I swear I play vs the same 4 white kid voices all the time, but the user tags are always different.

yeah, seriously. i hope i don't have a long life, this world is going to the shitter based on some/all of the people i've heard speaking on Halo 3 chat.

[Neon_Chaos]

Video games rot the brain.

[SFL Cat]

I blame western civilization's decline on the rise of secular humanism and the emasculation of moral values, particularly the value placed on human life. The content of video games is simply a reflection of our society's soul.

[CamEdwards]

I can't believe the author didn't wait until GTA IV to release his screed.

[Buccaneer]

You guys have heard of Lyndon Larouche, haven't you? He was all the rage in the 1980s.

[CamEdwards]

Yes, I'm aware of Lyndon LaRouche. It just wasn't clear that the author of that piece was, in fact, LaRouche himself and not one of his LaRouchians or whatever the hell they call themselves.

[Wolfpack]

Yes, I'm aware of Lyndon LaRouche. It just wasn't clear that the author of that piece was, in fact, LaRouche himself and not one of his LaRouchians or whatever the hell they call themselves.

LaRouchies were a fairly common Diag protest group when I worked at Michigan. Tended to park themselves at one corner of the little plaza right in front of the library to snag passers-by. Even after reading up about LaRouche, I've never quite understood what he was all about and how in the world he acquired such a cult of personality. It borders on Jim Jones-type fanaticism.