[Gilrad]

"well, first off... Civil Disobediance and theft are two different things. Take the first word for exapmle, civil, theft is not civil."
The fact that I am preventing a company from getting money that normally would have came at the expense of other people, however, is.
"cCivil disobediance implies a few things , one, that the ones participation are doing it for the moral high ground, to express what is right, no person went and got some slaves to make the point that slavery was bad..."
And if you would understand what I was writing above (possibly my fault... I am not the best at discribing such abstract concepts), I belive that companies who's sole purpose is to influence people's minds for their profit, their actions are dehumanising all who they target.
"what you are doing is a disgrace to this form of protest. Two, you need a moral point you are trying to make. Im sorry, but make better games is not a moral point..."
Now that would be a stupid point, wouldn't it? No. Companies who make bad games state that they are in for the profit, and therefore do not have a true reason to make games. If they were to all the sudden make better games, they would most likely still be in for the profit.
"i dont liek the news is not a moral point... i want to be myself, even though our brains are not physicaly capable of doing so is not a moral point."
When I say media, I dont just mean the news. Commercials, sponsors, everything sports stand for, they are all based on changing the views on as many people's minds as they can for their profit. The news has nothing to do with it; news is merely ment to inform you.

"Theft is not civil disobediance, Boycott square if you have to, but if you play their games (stolen or not) you suport them, they just dont get their dues, because you are a thief"
Again, if anything, I play the game to spite the company. This is clearly a hipothetical situation, but just imagine that you hear on the news that chikiquta banannas were picked from Africa using slave labor. What I am doing would be more or less the same as stealing a bananna from the store, and stomping on it when I get outside.
"as for school... you dont have to go to high school to get your GED, that is a paper saying you are smart enough to get a diploma. If the titles are meaningless, why do you strive for one?"
Again as I said earlier, there are still some reasons to go to school. A few of the teachers of my school not only teach you their cirriculum (in and outside of the book), but also that the book isn't the bible in that sense, and is not alwayse true, no matter what. And I need the titles, because I would rather start making a living off what I do within five years, than spend the next twenty going up the porverbial ladder of success. That would be fifteen less years of obligitory work.
"I was talking about a "proven" formal education. The human brain at most stages is not capable of not learning."
I belive that the moment someone stops their search for knowledge, they are either physically dead, or emotionally dead. They get so emmersed in distractions such as TV, that most of their lives are made up of distractions and obligations. Those are the types of people who will say, on their death bead, that they have not truely lived life.
"you shun media and wish this conversation to continue on the forum? what do you think a forum is... it isnt just a place in Rome ill tell you that."
What this forum is, is an exchange of knowledge. It isn't being forced apon the readers (It doesn't even have a banner!), they aren't attempting to make the people belive what the moderators and admins want them to belive, and they certainly aren't making any money from it. It is an exchange of knowledge, ideas, and opinions. Much like this conversation is.

As for why mainstream is so bad? I will break it into bite-sized chunks for you [img]smile.gif[/img]
You see somebody model their life after someone on TV, be it a sports star, music star, a fictional character, or even just the majority of the people around him in general. Whatever clothes that person wears, he wears them. Whatever passtimes that person likes, he likes them. Now what has happened to that person? He has become a puppet. The role model could then start making money off of that one person by making that person buy every single luxury in life. What happens when the puppet starts to feel incomplete, then? If one person doesn't satisfy his needs, he starts modelling his life after another person. Why would he not be happy for long? because he has lost his freedom of thought. He no longer can think for himself, and so needs someone--anyone--to think for him. He, too, will die knowing he have not truely lived life.