Recently it has been discovered that children
who play video games (are there any that don't?)
have convinced themselves that such inactivity
is a form of exercise, there is nothing new in that.
Sixty years ago, when their grandparents,
bought their first black and white television sets,
Saturday afternoons became sacrosanct.
Both television channels recognised how men
liked sport-it was a gender cliche writ large.
not that the TV executives wanted men
to actually play sport, and engage with a mentor
who might get them properly fit and agile.
The TV execs wanted a passive audience for their output
that did not openly upset the family, which gave men
that life apart from family that they believed they deserved.
Who knows what the executives of the companies
that design and sell video games are thinking?
They are far too far away for their thoughts
to be sought, but I am sure that they hope
that inactivity can be made to be addictive.
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