"In 1859, the esteemed magazine Scientific American issued a warning about young people's "pernicious excitement" over a trendy game: chess. The shuffling of pawns and rooks was "a mere amusement of a very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements," the magazine complained. Worse yet, the game offered "no benefit whatever to the body."
THE NANNY STATE
BOOK REVIEWS
Bad for You: Exposing the War on Fun (Henry Holt), a nonfiction comic book by Kevin C. Pyle and Scott Cunningham, shows that virtually every popular amusement was considered dangerous before it was widely understood and accepted. "...
Great point.
So many people want to automatically reject what they don't understand. Remember the horror over Dungeons and Dragons? That the generation that played it would grow up to be Satanists?
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
