Your reaction to what I'm writing here might be: What?
But, here is what I mean:
When I was young what made me be a good driver while I was a child growing up?
Realistically, what made me a good driver was riding my bike and having minor bike accidents that hurt a lot and maybe took a week to recover from.
Why didn't I shoot human beings that I was angry with in the 1950s and 1960s?
Because I had already been hit, punched, knocked down, and threatened with a knife. Life was very REAL to me and not a video game (which is not real at all). So, I grew up with reality in my subconscious from real life scary experiences. I knew what life was because I had suffered myself. I had empathy for others because of my own suffering. However, if someone had broken into my house even at age 9 I would have gotten my rifle from my bedroom and shot them. We were trained to be very real then.
Life was not a fake video game that doesn't resemble at all real reality. We saw blood. We got bloody from crashing our bikes or from being beaten up or fighting back and defending ourselves. We were threatened with knives or guns or even people running us over with their cars but we had compassion and empathy for others because of the realness of our lives. So, unless someone was attacking us and going to kill us with a knife or a gun we weren't going to kill them because we didn't live in a video game world rather than a real one.
This is a very important article to read by the way but I can't get it to load properly. So I guess you are going to have to click on it to read it. Thanks.
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/.../09/has...smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/
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