tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post7048734274718029160..comments2024-02-25T05:24:24.948-05:00Comments on Beyond Easy: (swamps &)soma, pt. 2Patrick Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02410016566636603639noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-67171939594845301182016-09-01T23:53:59.062-04:002016-09-01T23:53:59.062-04:00I hope you're right. My experience was just th...I hope you're right. My experience was just the opposite, though: I only took interest after abjuring video games (more or less) and going out to look for something else.<br /><br />But there's more than one path to the truth.Patrick Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02410016566636603639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-53454570755216072012016-09-01T09:18:29.777-04:002016-09-01T09:18:29.777-04:00Allow me to contest something, regarding your last...Allow me to contest something, regarding your last point: the damage was already done before Pokemon and Pokemon Go. Videogames, TV and other distractions already had ensconced the youth away from nature and its wonders. If any, Pokemon Go is taken them back outside, where maybe by accident, while chasing a wild Rattata they can come face to face with one of these strange, actual creatures. Sure, many will quickly ignore and forget them, if noticed them at all to begin with. But for some of them there will be that moment of wonder, of discovery. A curiosity sparked. And maybe just maybe, because their experience with Pokemon, they will not be grossed out, or fearful, or prone to some of children's infamous cruelty. I'll look forward reading in 20 years about entomologists or zoologists who were inspired down that path by Pokemon when they were kids, thus completing the circle.Maokunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15459710218366288832noreply@blogger.com