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...wonder,” he continued, “how the free world is going to get through the next fifty years.” But as he imagined Harvard’s future, Conant shifted from foreboding to faith. If the “prophets of doom?? proved wrong, if there was a Harvard president alive to read his letter, Conant was confident about what the university would be. “You will receive this note and be in charge of a more prosperous and significant institution than the one over which I have the honor...
...best. When the American Psychiatric Association, in 2002, published a report entitled “Violent Games Can Increase Aggression” it sparked nation-wide alarm and hysteria. Suddenly millions of parents assumed that “Mortal Kombat” and “Doom?? would turn their children into miniature killers. Omitted from the press release was that the data was essentially inconclusive. The purported relationship between violent media and violent people is actually not causal, but sometimes correlative. Put simply, the evidence accumulated from this study could only conclusively argue that...
Much attention has been paid to video game violence as a possible model for real-world outbursts—with id Software’s hyper-violent computer game “Doom?? infamously, and speciously, named as a contributing factor to the Columbine school shootings by media commentators—but incidents of violence directly related to in-game feuds are a comparatively recent development. They stand as an unwelcome testament to the runaway success these games have had in creating an alternate social universe just as real and urgent as the one we wake to each...
...Doom??s goofy-smooth beat grounds the highlight “Underwater,” a surreal enlightenment dream combined with pop-culture collage. As “mermaids with Halle Berry haircuts” help Ghostface navigate the ocean floor, he spots “Spongebob in the Bentley coupe / bangin’ the Isleys...
...Man’”—tired of playing games in which “Satan [was] the guy who rocked.” “I prayed to God in the morning and played ‘Doom?? and ‘Quake’ in the evening,” Bagley, who is also a licensed minister, says. “It just didn’t feel right.”Though Bagley initially had some difficulty attracting investors, he gained the necessary financial backing in 1999, following the tragedy...