Seduction of the Innocent (the console version)

This article by Shankar Gupta says something I've been noticing for a while - namely, how similar the current fears about video games are to the 1950s comics scare.

Of course, over the centuries, the same fears and the same language have been applied to video games, TV, comics, rock music, jazz, the novel, opera, theatre, troubadores, and even philosophy (remember Socrates?). Oh, and the internet...