A rather interesting thing to say, given that video-game players are often depicted as losers living in their parent’s basement.
“A rather interesting thing to say, given that video-game players are often depicted as losers living in their parent’s basement.”
Mass media depicts gamers this way, as gamers are disengaged from mass media while they are gaming. They also become in some ways critical thinkers, and actors in changing their circumstances - all things the mass media and this malignant professor abhor.
It is interesting that Jordan Peterson actually applauds gaming for the very reasons this guy denigrates it - there is a degree of vestigal effort=reward training in most video games, almost absent in the artificial environments of mandated conformity and mediocrity many are bound in today. It is profoundly ironic, but in some instances virtual games are more atavistic and primal than urban and suburban hamster wheels.