A Gym For The Mind

Hands up if you have heard someone say “those video games are no good – they rot the brain and poison the mind“, or something that approaches that attitude in terms of an emotive response to video games.

Now, put your hands back down. Put your hands up if you regularly play video games and have found that the game frustrates you because it poses a problem you cannot work around. Now, do you see the point this article is about to make?

The assertion that video games prevent people from broadening their minds and even work to retard the brain in some way really is an idiotic one.

Let’s think about this for a minute. So many of the games out there on the market require the player to really think about what they are doing.

Each has a quite logical pattern which can be followed by the gamer to get them to the next level. They very much encourage logical thinking rather than retarding the brain.

Of course, there will be some people who when playing a video game simply run around the (virtual) play area shooting everything that moves and, when they find something that doesn’t move, shooting it until it does.

Even this does not mean that they are rotting their brains. Certainly no more so than reading a book which has a murder in it every other chapter.

Of course, one of these two will always be seen in some people’s eyes as enriching their intellect – and there are no prizes for guessing which.