Jack Thompson - Hypocrisy of the highest order.
Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 2:25 am
Well, I've read the first few chapters of Mr Thompsons book, out of personal interest since I have been following this case, with mixed emotions.
My emotions were mixed not because of Mr Thompson, but because I always felt that GTA was 'one step beyond' what should be expected of a game and that game manufacturers should take more steps to regulate their own content, but another part of me always thought 'Yeah, but if you were a Police Officer using a Rocket Launcher of gangster cars, does that make you a better person?'
Anyway, the first chapter begins with a playgroundesque attack on Howard Stern, calling him Coward Stern :rolleyes:
It then goes on to start attacking Janet Reno in paragraph 2.
By Paragraph 3, possibly the few active neurons in Mr Thompsons brain decided to stop huddling together for warmth and reminded him what the book is about, because he suddenly jumps back in time to when he met his wife and was studying law. This doesn't last long though, since it's not long before he's back to attacking Ms Reno.
Then he talks of his failure to pass his exams the first time round and claims 'I blamed 'things'. never myself'. Following up with the story of how he found his Christianity and got over his blaming his life on other people.
What makes me laugh is that Mr Thompson then launches full-force into doing precisely that! Most of the book is based on unproven, or, more scarily, disproven fact.
I thought at first that Mr Thompson was doing it for the media attention, it is becoming apparent though that he is, in fact, a terribly insecure, uneducated, conclusion jumping borderline nut-job.
His writing is disjointed, jumps from location and timeframe with each paragraph and actually made very very little sense in a lot of places. A lot of it is told from a persecuted 'holier than thou' point of view. I would be genuinely interested to see what a Phsycho-analyst would make of his writing style.
In short. It's all true.
My emotions were mixed not because of Mr Thompson, but because I always felt that GTA was 'one step beyond' what should be expected of a game and that game manufacturers should take more steps to regulate their own content, but another part of me always thought 'Yeah, but if you were a Police Officer using a Rocket Launcher of gangster cars, does that make you a better person?'
Anyway, the first chapter begins with a playgroundesque attack on Howard Stern, calling him Coward Stern :rolleyes:
It then goes on to start attacking Janet Reno in paragraph 2.
By Paragraph 3, possibly the few active neurons in Mr Thompsons brain decided to stop huddling together for warmth and reminded him what the book is about, because he suddenly jumps back in time to when he met his wife and was studying law. This doesn't last long though, since it's not long before he's back to attacking Ms Reno.
Then he talks of his failure to pass his exams the first time round and claims 'I blamed 'things'. never myself'. Following up with the story of how he found his Christianity and got over his blaming his life on other people.
What makes me laugh is that Mr Thompson then launches full-force into doing precisely that! Most of the book is based on unproven, or, more scarily, disproven fact.
I thought at first that Mr Thompson was doing it for the media attention, it is becoming apparent though that he is, in fact, a terribly insecure, uneducated, conclusion jumping borderline nut-job.
His writing is disjointed, jumps from location and timeframe with each paragraph and actually made very very little sense in a lot of places. A lot of it is told from a persecuted 'holier than thou' point of view. I would be genuinely interested to see what a Phsycho-analyst would make of his writing style.
In short. It's all true.
