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Reading Elliot Rodger’s autobiography, I am struck by how much of his life consists of video games and films. Those compose a large chunk of his memories from an early age. Yet, he cannot describe any individual game. By contrast, he describes a rock he wanted to climb in detail.
The games and television and film do not constitute any memory as such, these were experience and experienced at length—perhaps remembered as “epic” or “enjoyable”. But there is no texture to the memory. We are living memoryless lives.
There is considerable pathos in Rodgers’s autobiography. He describes having a “play date” at age 16. He sees a friend twice in the holidays and spends the rest of the time playing video games. It’s very sad. The friend prefers playing in his pool to video games.
There is also bathos. On holiday in Morocco, he finds a 12 y.o. relative making out with a girl his age (16). This moment will “haunt him forever”. Remarkably, at 17 he had “supervised travel assistance” to get to the airport. Young people really are crippled today.
Couldn’t say I was that much better. This is a product of our technological world, partly.
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