XBox Replaces Real Play Time

So I'm sitting in my room at home watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Even on top of the fact that an incredible amount of attractions in the parade are television actors or characters, the commercial breaks really grind in the reality of the parade as a money making scheme. An American favorite, the parade seems to do little but perpetuate the cycle of watching television.

But that is not what I came here to talk about. In class we talk about television, cell phones, the Internet, but we rarely touch on video games. We've gone from Atari to XBox Kinect and slowly but surely, video games have put real athletic activity on pause. The most disturbing part of my Thanksgiving morning was the realization that now, with the new XBox Kinect, there is no need for kids to play outside. There is no controller to remind them that they are attached to a television screen. What happened to the days when kids would play soccer with each other outside, on grass, with a real ball and real teammates to see who came out the victor? Well, no need to worry about your kids' safety, parents!! They're playing games inside. Aren't you proud?