I'm not sure that your video game hypothesis holds any water, at all. I'm reasonably certain it doesn't. Por ejemplo; how does that apply in Jamaica? Video games are not a big "thing" there, yet they have more violence than most societies. Or you can look at several Central American countries, same thing. Uber violent, near zero video game culture. Inner cities in the US... same thing. People are too busy trying to hustle to survive, to play video games, yet violence is omnipresent.
So yeah, I'd look in another direction, if I were you.
Not religion either. Religion has been the single largest root cause of violence and war on this planet for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
Humans can adapt to nearly any circumstance imaginable. This includes severe desensitization to violence. It becomes "normal", and people move on with their lives. To blame something as benign as video games is a little short sighted, I think.
IMO, the root cause comes down to how our global societies today have striated into extremely different social classes. The rich can operate with impunity, while the rest struggle to maintain. It creates serious bitterness, jealousy, and greed on both ends of the spectrum.
Also, on the whole, we have become far less violent over time in the past thousand years. Yet violence does remain a part of life. Video games are a very recent phenomenon, violence is not.
So yeah, I'd look in another direction, if I were you.
Not religion either. Religion has been the single largest root cause of violence and war on this planet for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
Humans can adapt to nearly any circumstance imaginable. This includes severe desensitization to violence. It becomes "normal", and people move on with their lives. To blame something as benign as video games is a little short sighted, I think.
IMO, the root cause comes down to how our global societies today have striated into extremely different social classes. The rich can operate with impunity, while the rest struggle to maintain. It creates serious bitterness, jealousy, and greed on both ends of the spectrum.
Also, on the whole, we have become far less violent over time in the past thousand years. Yet violence does remain a part of life. Video games are a very recent phenomenon, violence is not.
