Testing Times

In the present history of mass entertainment
nothing is bigger than the games industry,
whether financially, or whether in terms
of the number of programmers it employs.
Gaming dwarfs television, film and live music
combined. All to produce ever more 'realistic'
and enticing images out of electricity, meant
to make the viewer forget they are manufactured,
particularly when they use human likeness
but invent different worlds that are run by rules
that nobody would dream of making a reality.

I don't play video games but I do 'get the point' of them,
when the mind is tempted to idle then it will idle,
but woe betide the mind that is pushed to idle too long,
and lets relationships slide to where 'there is nothing to do',
that is where the point of being who we are will be tested.