The President is correct in his concerns.  I am not surprised at the biased perspectives coming out saying there is no link.

Common sense without any allegiance to either side would state that of course children are influenced by what they see, but more importantly when it becomes an experiential experience then they take the game into body knowledge, cellular where the mind doesn’t know the difference between perception and reality, as a fact.

I am a teacher of peace and experiential education.  I am very clear that children learn but what they do.  Some will say they won’t go and kill people after playing, no most won’t.  But what it does is normalise violence and make it fun to kill.  I remember asking Major Douglas Rokke who head the Depleted Uranium Project in the Pentagon. I asked him why?  This is an excerpt from my radio interview with him:

Q: I wanted to ask you a question in relation to the mindset of the people who would send troops into an area and fire depleted uranium missiles. What sort of mindset would you describe of the sort of people who would do this type of thing?

DR: It is real simple I have been a combat veteran of multiple wars and I am a warrior and still classify myself as a warrior and a patriot. The reason or purpose of war is to kill period. You kill all living things and you destroy everything that is not living. When you are a warrior that is what you do. You don’t think twice about this, you don’t even give concerns. You know the term collateral damage that is used… as if it is nothing, collateral damage means destroying everything that is not military. That means killing, killing and wounding the children. It means destroying schools, hospitals and churches. And everything else, that is what collateral damage means. They don’t even count the collateral damage in war. They just ignore it and say it is ok. It is justified. There is no justification for killing and harming the children of the world.

The full interview is here: https://wpas.worldpeacefull.com/2016/10/whistleblowers-major-douglas-rokke/

The objective in the games is simple to kill the opponents, to chase the other, encouraged by sound effects and points, to feel and be aggressive and win the game. Winners are grinners in adversarial conflict, it doesn’t teach conflict resolution, what did we learn about killing, nor build a sense of empathy for those who were the victims.

The games are conditioned or more accurately programming norms that children, particularly boys, believe model being a male and the game is produced and marketed as exciting.

The problem we face in the real world is absent fathers who are not role modelling values to their boys or gentleness.  In fact those men who are gentle are often isolated as the belief is that men are tough, unfeeling and in control.  This is not the masculine.  The fathers are not home enough and mother’s use  the games pacify and occupy kids so they behave, like a technological baby sitter.  The kids get addicted to the games, as the designers are well aware of the psychological configuration of games to keep them interested, always seeking higher scores and challenges so it plays into basic instincts whilst silently indoctrinating them that war is good.

I visited a lovely couple whose boy was talking to another gamer over headsets and having fun killing.  I observed and saw unbelievable violence.   I looked at the parents and knew they had no idea what they were doing to their child.  It is either incredibly naive to believe they do nothing that children cannot be influnced, or denial to not want to confront the reality of mind control through games (repetitive rewards for killing) or in the case of those behind this, the military to ensure they have future recruits into the army.  They use the games as simulations, they were originally invented to train soldiers.  So it is no longer a question of debate if the games impact children, they do.  Do they make them kill, not yet but mind control techniques, unhappy childhoods, violent families and subliminal messaging could happen give how lax governments are in regulating violence on TV, the internet and games.  This is because men are mostly in power and see nothing wrong as this is part of their socialisation.  From a female perspective we feel deeply the emotional landscape, we immediately know the suffering on the ground in places like Syria, women have babies so they identify with the children killed.  The Syrian child washed up on a beach evoked huge outpouring of emotions, as it could be anyone’s child.

The challenge in the peace area is how to awaken people to the reality that war cannot exist without an enemy.  One has to be able to build a case to label the evil other to justify violence. Moreover, those who make profits to the tune of $1 trillion per year, that is, the Industrial Military Complex, they have an absolute interest in keeping the myth of male violence going.

Meanwhile in civil society here in Australia, one woman dies a week from domestic violence or male violence that is projected onto a woman as he feels, in truth, powerless.  Women, like any person deemed vulnerable are targeted as they can’t fight back, this is a problem for women across the world.

The growing trend of creating violent female characters, even the matrix provided that image.  Young women are changing as they want to feel powerful and fight the men back. The reality is they do not have the physical strength and no matter how they try to fit in they can’t be men.  So the feminine which is the highest expression of humanity in respect of the feeling, caring, compassionate state is relegated as ‘weak’ or ‘over emotional’ along with other utterances that subconsciously seek to keep woman in her place, give men no place to go but to aggression to solve problems.  It doesn’t work and I know having interviewed and met with soldiers, they carry the psychological wounds their entire life.  I know of soldiers who became refuseniks, they were US soldiers. I know of others talking about killing civilians, namely Vietnam, one killed a girl and he was absolutely haunted.  I worked at a military academy for a short time, saw the parades and the marketing around the killing industry.  The creation of heroism to make it an honour to die for country.  I would say there is no honour when men are placed in harms way to further the interests of power elites who are projecting power to have political and economic control.  These actions are largely not about maintaining any sense of peace, they are about retaining the pecking order of who rules the world.  In recent years the oil oligarchy established in the US Government and had plans of endless wars to keep the fighting going so they could access oil fields for profit.  When Defence has Energy moved into the same portfolio, it doesn’t take much common sense to work out that the Energy industry is using the Military to expand and control energy.  That would make sense to the Military who would immediately recognise that industry must run on energy.  But what no commentator in these meetings raises is the price paid by innocent civilians who have done nothing to attract violence to their country.  They go about their normal day totally unaware of the plans to bomb their city.  I can only imagine the shock of Iraqi civilians who were bombed mercilessly.  Looks spectacular on CNN but under it would be a terror you and I in our safe lounge room or office can imagine.  People get off on the drama but emotionally they are unable to connect to that ‘other’ as they are called the ‘enemy’.  How can hundreds of thousands of people be responsible for 911, when the planes were flown by Saudi’s in likely collaboration with the Bush dynasty as Michael Moore visually revealed.  Where is the conscience around that, that says this is wrong.  Where is the feeling, the tears, the anguish for innocent people.  Nothing, just a blank stare at the screen and lets flick the channel. That is what happens to us via technology.  I know this as I’ve filmed and realised my own desensitisation to feelings in a room.  Technology is the great disconnector of us, we believe it entertains, it is fun, it informs but ultimately it has destroyed our natural links to each other.The same applies to arms manufacturers who get excited by the technological challenge, seeing speed at Mach and beyond, exploring war in a range of theatres out of curiosity and enjoying the science.  However, they have to get on the ground and hear the screams, see the skin and limbs hanging, see the children with arms blown off through cluster bombs, look at the burned bodies or evaporated bodies.  That is when the reality of this causes that.  Who are we?  So how is this solved, drones.  So there is no more PTSD, no more body bags, just remote killing like a video game to remove humanity from acts that are disgusting, as Scott Ritter (senior weapons inspector, Iraq) told a Melbourne audience.  He felt it was necessary.  Here is his speech https://wpas.worldpeacefull.com/2013/04/scott-ritter-former-spy-war-is-not-glorious-it-is-not-tv/

I would state war is not necessary in all cases. Although for those who cannot empathise, who cannot dialogue for truth, who cannot imagine power without projection of violence, maybe he is right.  But for those of us trained in peace, conflict resolution and anti-bullying we would say in a chorus absolutely you can solve it and stop it.  Now all the manufacturers would say, target her, she’s bad for business, again detached from the human tragedy on the ground, just justify it away as the enemy or Muslims or Rohingya or Sudanese etc etc.  Don’t go there.  Until you do our world heads to a precipice where there is no coming back.

UFO messages have been sent to humanity, yes I will bring this in as I am feeling inspired.  I will place a message I found on the net, I can’t verify it but it is for public comment.  https://wpas.worldpeacefull.com/2017/07/what-is-the-message-to-humanity-from-extraterrestrials-ets/ The UFO’s have been reported to have hovered over nuclear silos and shut down nuclear weapons, sending a clear message.  They showed up after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  Whitley Striber wrote a book called ‘Communion’ where greys visited him since childhood.  He was taken up in a ship and recalled these little guys with big eyes all around him. He was experimented on.  He felt like an animal would feel when humans hold them down and do what they want, completely helpless.  He said they showed him a nuclear explosion.  The Greys are a hive mind, like an artificial intelligence, there are Tall Greys who are the intelligent ones from my research.  The general theme is they came to warn us as they regard us as primitive and dangerous to ourselves and the planet.  I would agree.  Never in my life have I wanted to force or hurt a person to get something. Always I feel for the other, that is empathy that is within me.  Although some I know don’t feel it.  I get that.  The military has had dealings with them since the Second World War.  On Australian television we have Project Bluebook which was a unit set up to investigate and debunk UFO sightings, remember the explanation of weather balloons?  Also those who did want to speak were quickly silenced or threatened into silence. The argument was that it would cause panic.  I don’t know if that is the reality.  I think these days people would feel relief as they are desperately seeking solutions in the absence of leadership or any change that indicates some form of restitution of damage done.  Steven Greer from the Disclosure Project is stating that the extraterrestrials have technology that can clean up the atmosphere but the military is withholding it.  Again, the same point is to do with caring about humanity.  Not holding the technology to ensure advantage of opponents but coming into service for humanity and helping them.

Perhaps Trump’s feeling about violent video games comes from having a young son.  His instincts in this case, as a parent are accurate.  But can he and others in positions of power take this a step further and look at the same old rhetoric of power dynamics between Russia and China, all influencing each other and seeking control.  It is this very control that is the core issue and reason war never ends.   I can only offer that when I faced fear I found I didn’t need to control events but allow them to unfold in order to know the next step.  I used my own conflicts as a learning experience, I didn’t see an enemy but recognised life sent me a challenge that I wouldn’t run from, as I believe in courage, but nonviolent.  I wanted to end my life many times given the psychological game played out, however instead of blaming the other, I turned inward to find the source of powerlessness that was catalysed by being treated as less, non existent and victim blamed for a situation where there was another side.  It was unjust but my work is peace, i have to see this experience as a gift, I have to look for the truth in this, so I wrote poetry to connect me to deeper truth.  I absolutely had no choice but to turn inward. I found the answers unfolded but naturally, not in accordance with a deadline.  It took me 14 years to understand psychological abuse and that perfectly mentally healthy people could take their lives.  This revealed to me the importance of self love as inner strength, to not weaken to find a enemy, to look into my needs, to understand the trauma deepening through a silent abuse far worse than if a person had beaten me up.  It was a silent enemy I fought and I saw it as fear underlying power completely disconnected from rights or equality.  I had a fundamental knowing I am equal, so I was confused at this treatment.  Today I am not.  So had I been indoctrinated by violent video games I might have thought that is how you win, yet I never wanted to win and stated that to these people.  I was very clear my purpose is not winning, I sought truth as the real winning.  So video games that play out the old paradigm of winning and losing is a zero sum game in my view.  There is no winners when children think this is the world. For those who want that, who want to dumb down their talents, to get them hooked, to download what they want them to know do not love children at all, they love themselves through children.  Anyone that seriously loves children would never put them in front of violence as they get nightmares and believe their are scary mean people out there, when that is the fears and ignorant thoughts placed by adult men believing they can turn a profit.

That is what economics did to our world. I am an Economist, I know that it was flawed, I knew at 24 it was flawed.  Simplistic notions of supply and demand, invisible hand of Adam Smith magically allocating according to balance.  Yet the market becomes competitive, where the money is the focus goes, rather than the needs of humanity, so why men are jousting it out to win more war games, the earth is sinking.  And those playing out real war games are destroying the climate to gain advantage over adversaries terrestrial or in space.  We have barely come out of the caves (darkness) into the light of a new dawn, where the light of a new understanding dawns on us, that this is not working, that this is not happiness, that this is not evolution, it is regressive and revolving as we dig deeper holes as the basic blueprint hasn’t changed.

This is the work of men today, to reinvent themselves, to return to the real honour of their gender.  I see the wise men in the tribe, the elders, the philosophers, the quiet men that lend a hand.  The men who spend their lives working out pathways, I think of Gandhi here, he was heard saying that he walked all night thinking hard to try and solve the problem of violence. He was moved by a spiritual awareness of God as Truth and Truth as God.  So he pursued the truth to find God.  He came to me in a dream where he looked at me, I saw the rim of his glasses (no eyes), he had the long stick he took to the sea of Dandi.  He looked at me and I felt seen.  Then I woke up. When I went to his ashram trying to work out this long term conflict, lying on concrete bench, feeling home with truth, like my life had been going for thousands of years.  I came to the one who I knew was clear.  I felt the tears, and do now.  So deeply I desired truth to stop the conflict.  My intensity was not to win but to understand.  I knew the truth would set me free from revolving conflicts facing another who cares nothing for my plight.  I say that with the added wisdom of knowing had that other been kind, I wouldn’t have the knowledge I have today, peace makes me recognise their part in my evolution.  So there is no enemy, just a problem to be solved.  So I go to the bookshop. I feel tears and stop myself thinking of Gandhi.  I go out and come back in.  I get his book and go to the counter.  I then cry and laugh.  The satyagrahi (follower of Gandhi in white) stood there and offered to show me the ashram.  I agreed and off we went.  She unlocked his room.  I empty room with a spinning wheel, his sandals, his glasses and a round plan on the wall of ahimsa (nonviolence) coupled with social policy.

So I sit on the floor with the satyagrahi on either side of the spinning wheel and we speak of peace education.  I feel the calling the strongly and I felt the connection to this wise man who has since been demonised by those with a vested interest that no-one emulate this greatness.  It was not Gandhi who was great, it was him allowing a higher power to enlighten his way, as it is for all of those who find truth.  Truth cannot be killed, assassinated or blown up.  It will find another willing recipient who has had enough of the insanity who pleads to show the world another way.

So my work on peace education was experiential education. There is no way I would want it online, although to let others know it exists, yes.  I knew that the children needed to embed not objects but values.  I knew they needed to learn from each other and tap into the infinite wisdom within themselves.  I didn’t want to be another teacher dictating what they need to know, but more of a guide, a gentle clown who shows them peace in a fun way but helps them to see the extreme other side of bullying when domination agenda’s manifest as strength when the real strength is power within.  I taught them about Gandhi and saw one boy visibly change, he was challenged by strength being inside not in his muscles.  We joked together as friends as socialising, warmth, empathy grows out of relationship.  My work was not to embed data as a form of behaviour control, it was more in alignment with ‘to thine own self be true’ as the fundamental wisdom of empowerment which will do no harm.  I taught them to recognise body language, to listen to each other, to learn to say something positive to another, to role play anti-bullying approaches to deal with bullying, I had them pass a Plasticine around and say a nice or negative word and indent it.  It came back disfigured.  I showed them that this is the inside of a person and that is how we shape change them by our words, today I would add lack of words, we do it to ourselves as the pain turns inward. So we shape change people by our thoughts, words and actions.  To leanr to take responsibility means the ability to respond, to stand in their shoes (empathy) to notice be aware open the mind (expanded intelligence), to love not as some fluffy term but to love family, friends, strangers and my work as a clown on the streets around the world.  To have fun.  To speak the truth all the time but in ways that honoured your truth, not appeasement or vested interest.  To realise we are One, what goes around comes around, what you put out returns (hence wars will return to sender), peace (yin and yang) to know that peace is not perfection it is making peace with the opposites, reconciling differences and recognising the contrast in life, the up and down, the left and right, hot and cold, male and female etc.  Life is meant to be contrasting but this serves the greater dynamic always returning to homeostasis.  Enjoyment is the joy within that has fun just being.  I juggle and tell the kids the juggling balls are a figure eight, infinity symbol which in truth is the universal energy pattern of harmony where we all relax and smile.  Service is the last one which occurs as I write this to you, in service to you.  My arms are aching and I am feeling pain but I can’t stop until I complete this message to you.  My love is that strong.

Anyway, until we get past the business-as-usual vested interests that will always fight against or resist any regulating of their work, even if it causes harm, whilst business interests cannot see beyond themselves which is the state of play in economics, we will be very slow to change.  Albeit we will change kicking and screaming as civil society has no choice but to stand up for sanity.

That is what I am doing.  Lao Tzu comes in here as a final statement:

“it is the duty of those who know to tell the blind horse man on the blind horse that he is heading towards the abyss”.  Love urges me to speak up.

Here now is the article, but perhaps my introduction are the words you need to read.  I send you love and truth from the depth of my heart.