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Essay / Culture Lag Essay - 1060
Essentially, it means that society is reluctant to embrace new things like technology, trends, things of that nature. For example, before video games, people blamed rock music for violence in society (Bezio 1). Before that, people blamed television for the violence. As people, we are unable to find answers when a problem that we cannot understand immediately arises. This is why we have a cultural gap, we prefer to point the finger rather than find the solution. Hundreds of studies have been carried out to try to find the link between violence and video games. All the tests had the same result, no concrete proof that video games make you violent (Bezio 2). Why do we continue to test? That's because academics and politicians continue to point fingers, telling us that video games are the reason members of the gaming community act violently. While they themselves probably have little or no experience with video games. Even if we took video games out of the equation, we would still need