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I'm going to add YouTube and other "media" outlets like that to the mix. In elementary school the "hardcore" kids in my class had to go to the library and look at the holocaust and Vietnam photos in the TimeLife books to get their gore fix. Now they can go to YouTube while skipping school at their friend's house and watch helmet cams from ACTUAL live firefights in Iraq and Afghanistan. They can hear the soldiers joking about shooting and killing people. That's not a video game, but it's certainly portrayed as one. And if they're just "surfing the internet" on their own, there is NOBODY around to put it in context for them. No older, wiser brother or uncle or father to say, "That's not showing you the real cost of war" or "No, you can't watch that. You wouldn't understand/not old enough."
ok, back to my work...
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