We all know that the internet has been a “revelation” in bringing the world together, providing encyclopaedic knowledge at everyone’s fingertips.
But is it leaving a large section of society behind? Excessive “consumption” of hardcore gonzo pornography and online computer gaming is producing a generation of men who never really “grow up”. It’s bad enough that teenagers are playing too much but having lads in their 30’s and beyond still spending hours of their days playing games is just sad, and worrying.
There’s a couple of kids in the house next to mine. The younger one plays sports, has friends and is often outside whereas you rarely see the older lad. You, certainly, hear him, though. Anytime I’m out working in the garden you hear him roaring into his headset playing some ‘Call of Duty’ type thing.
Speaking to the mother of the two, it doesn’t sound like he’s going to do too well in the Leaving Cert and she’s worried he won’t be going to college or ever moving out.
Is he just another casualty of the internet? Another “lost boy” who’ll grow into an angry, middle aged, manchild lashing out at the world because it’s left him behind?
