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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FDP Mike" data-source="post: 491973" data-attributes="member: 325">Cultural values?Sorry, but I don't see this at all.Encouraging a kid to go and play outside is an imposition of some kind of cultural value?  Which one, and what are its politics?  I mean, getting the kid out in the fresh (?) air and into a swimming pool or onto a soccer pitch with other (physical) people is a good, natural, healthy thing to expect -- not some form of attempted ideological dominance.Certainly, "good neighbourhood" could be construed in various ways (i.e., a comfortable upper-middle class suburban neighbourhood or inner city slums?), if you want to engage in an overdetermined parsing of Stein's answers to the interviewer.I agree with Stein about getting out of the house.  When I was a kid, my parents never imposed some cultural value of "go outside" -- I just did it, and for hours at a time.  Now, if I spend too much time indoors, I feel it (even if that means spending too much time at a computer game that I really enjoy <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ).  A major element of the obesity problem in (North) American children is a distinct lack of physical activity.  Why?  Because they're spending the greater part of their time in front of televisions and computers.  If you want to label healthy physical and social interaction an imposed cultural value (i.e., a constricting ideology), then I'm really not sure what would be considered a good bit of parenting in this case.EverQuest on-line is not real social interaction; it's a pale substitute.  Heaven forgive Stein the attempt to get his son out into the actual world with actual people and actual air to breathe.Now, the EverQuest RPG is a completely different matter . . . .  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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