Ea_spouse's story was posted on November 10. As of 10:09 a.m., pst, on Nov. 19, there were 2770 comments posted in reply to the ea_spouse essay. "ea_spouse" gets 1, 980 hits on Google.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/ea_spouse/ It seems to me that there is a bigger story here. It has to do with the appeal of electronic games as commercial entertainment, the themes and action of those games (much "aggression and anti-social values"), the motivation of young people to work in the game industry, etc. The egregious mismanagement of working time in the industry, in my estimation both mirrors and recycles the broader social mismanagement of working time and commercial colonization of "culture" and leisure. 50 years ago... William Whyte on the corporate manager: "You promote the guy who takes his problem home with him." Harold Rosenberg on the creative intellectual: "You hire the guy who takes his problem to bed with him." Today... "You fire the guy who doesn't take his bed to work with him." I've said it before. I'll say it again. And it won't be the last time: "A preliminary condition, without which all further attempts at improvement and emancipation must prove abortive, is the limitation of the working day." The reason for that doesn't stop at the factory gate or the studio door. Tom Walker 604 255 4812
