Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is indicative of what happens when people feel it is one of their Human Rights, to impose their will upon other’s Human Rights. Tying it in with Video Games and War might sound odd; a collection of tales told by an elderly woman, from the 1980s, about her life from the 1930s, mostly. Sure some minor characters go to war, and Human Rights violations abound; perhaps, making a “First-Person Adventure” game, solving the murder, experiencing the pain and suffering through the characters eyes, with a slant towards education and empathy. It could help show young bullies that suffering, begets more suffering. It would need a government grant to get off of the ground as I would expect sales to be slow; if it were free to schools perhaps, it would get played.
***WAR! At it's finest.****
***WAR! At it's finest.****
The pure silliness of the very real possibility of sending robots to “Duke it out” over oil and fertile farm land is laughable, and scary at the same time. One man with a gun can do a whole lot of damage. There is no telling how much damage one man in control of a thousand walking, invulnerable guns can do. When all is said and done, whoever has the biggest gun will win most Wars (barring political handicapping,) hopefully the one with the biggest gun is a good guy. Ultimately, if it were possible to get all the World’s Presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings, Queens, Self-appointed Dictators for life, Warlords, Drug Czars, Sea-Pirates, Michael Foucault, Illegal-Arms Dealers, and the United Nations to agree to settle any disputes over Pac-Man and Chess; then it probably wouldn’t be too hard to get them to a treaty signing anyhow.
Works Cited
Fried Green Tomatoes. Dir. Jon Avnet. Prod. Jon Avnet. By Fannie Flagg. Perf. Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, and Mary Stuart Masterson. Universal Pictures, 1991. DVD.
Dockery, Kevin. Future Weapons. New York: Berkley Caliber, 2007.
Bourke, Joanna. An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-face Killing in Twentieth-century Warfare. [New York, NY]: Basic, 1999.
Flagg, Fannie. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. New York: Ballantine, 2000.
Oates, Joyce Carol. The Gravedigger's Daughter. New York: Harper Perennial, 2008.
Wookiee, Whacky. My Freedom Is More Important Than Yours. Unpublished student essay. Kent State University, 2011.
Robin, Marie-Monique. The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of the World. New York: The New Press, 2009.
Suddath, Claire. "Brief History: Video-Game Violence - TIME." TIME.com. Time Inc., 05 Oct. 2010. Web. 05 May 2011. .
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1985999,00.html
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