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games physically, so the energy generated by the fantasy was used up in the game. Using computer games stimulates the fantasy but leaves the physical responses unexpressed. A charge builds up within the body. It may not be until there is a little alcohol added to the equation to remove the natural inhibitions but eventually, when the right buttons are pushed these stored responses will demand expression.

It would be wrong to say that because a person plays on a tennis game they will become a pro tennis player as an adult. But it might not be wrong to suggest that if that individual found themselves on a tennis court playing a match that they may not have learned some useful moves from their game playing.

We live in a society that is under great pressure. Circumstances arise on the roads, in the school playground, within the family and social groups where frustrations surface with force. This is when the
player remembers the moves he has absorbed in his fantasy game playing.

If the world of video games were more balanced with a healthy selection of games concerned with the
promotion of peace , healing and the creation of harmony and beauty it would be more acceptable. As hing are it is world filled with violence and aggression which is distorting the sensitive developing mindsets of young people the world over. The society of the future depends on these young minds. The society of the future will show us if the diet we have allowed the potentially beautiful minds to consume
has been a healthy one and whether video games have been an outlet for aggression or trained a whole generation to "Finish Him!"

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