Abby Schachter on the War on Fun

Abby Schachter
reviews Bad for You: Exposing the War on Fun, a
nonfiction comic book by Kevin C. Pyle and Scott Cunningham, which
shows that virtually every popular amusement was considered
dangerous before it was widely understood and accepted. Chess was
going to distract kids. Comic books would turn kids against their
parents and cause “reading disorders.” TV was going to “hurt radio,
conversation, reading and the patterns of family life.” Video games
would make kids more violent. The Internet would “scatter” the
users’ “attention.” Parents do not, by and large, want to deny
their children fun, but as this comic illustrates, it’s easy to
fear what’s new and to wind up working against your kids’ best
interests.

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