Reality Amuck™

The title of this post comes from a ‘tweet’ I posted Wednesday morning after reading the blog post over at Penny Arcade and then following their links to Roger Ebert’s post and Kellee Santiago’s post and TEDx video.

I had seen a few stirrings in the Twitter-stream regarding this “Are Video Games Art?” thing over the weekend and honestly didn’t bother to look until Tycho posted about it. Having read and watched both sides in this, I can now opine that I still don’t care. It’s not like it’s even an active “don’t care” either, it’s more of a passive, “Wait, what? Is that even a thing?” kind of don’t care.

I would like to give a more in-depth opinion, but my lack of concern about the issue and my lack of wanting to get comments trying to convince me I’m wrong prevent me from making it.

What I see is two generations butting heads, much as they often do, about some point that will be forgotten or accepted 200 years from now. I see the "Old" being grumpy and complaining that the "Young" want to change some thought or idea without their permission and I see the "Young" being whiney and crying that the "Old" just don't understand this rad new idea or way of thinking.

On matters of art I generally stay quiet to avoid hearing how wrong/uncultured/uneducated/misinformed/inaccurate/unrefined/cloddish/crude I am. For the most part I just don’t care and don’t see how caring one way or the other matters.

“He thinks different than I do so I have to rage about it for hours!”

I’m reminded of the old saying about opinions being like assholes. Everybody’s got one and everyone thinks everyone else’s stinks.

Truth be told, I don’t consider half of what’s called art to be art and I likely never will. Nor will I care.

So this week instead of flooding the interwebs with opinions and derogatory comments about the other way of thinking (whatever that may be), how about you take a minute and find something that’s actually important to comment on or discuss?

Just a thought.