soooooo…

I don’t think anyone’s reading this any more, or at least I’m not saying anything provoking enough to warrant a comment.. but that’s ok, I still love me

things have been alright the last couple of days, nothing out of the ordinary, things have been a little more settled than they had been at the start of last week.. this i good because uneventful is better than bad news

So I want to rant for a little bit. This is something I’ve seen on another couple of blogs I read and I want to put in my own 2 cents:

There’s a game about to be released on Sony’s PS3 system, and it’s probably the most anticipated title they have this year. It’s called LittleBigPlanet and it looks amazing, and it’s a thinkpiece of a game, a real work of art.

However, it was supposed to be out this week, but it’s not going to happen. Delays are fine, they happen all the time, as a gamer, I’m used to it. The problem is the REASON the game is being delayed.

Apparently, it was recently discovered that one of the songs that is was being used in the background in one of the levels contained some arabic that was passages from the qu’ran, which as we all know, is the Muslim holy text.

My problem here is that it’s not like it’s being used in an offensive way, and it just goes to show that nothing in the world is free from censorship. I understand that religion is very important to many many people, and it’s everyone in the world’s divine right to be offended by something if they choose to be. But why is it, that because someone is offended that we should just sweep everything under the rug and act like nothing had happened? Isn’t it a good thing to be exposed to cultures different from your own? doesn’t that open peoples eyes, make them more understanding? How about instead of censorship we use things like this to create a dialogue?

The problem is, and I say this with no disrespect the the muslim faith, extremists. I’m not saying all Muslims are extremists, I’d be willing to bet the overwhelming majority are relatively moderate. But look what happened in Denmark a couple of years ago. A cartoonist made a cartoon, which caused rioting and deaths for days, if not weeks. Now this guy is living in hiding because these people want to kill him. I can kind of understand what was going on there because he made the comic in order to be inflammatory. But rioting does not solve anything. I don’t care who you are or where you are, it just doesn’t work. It makes the public look down at you, it makes others who share your beliefs look bad. It’s a terrible public image.

with LBP it’s not being used in an insulting way. It’s being used as background music. A piece of art within a piece of art. It should be something everyone should be allowed to be exposed to if they choose to be, and if you don’t like it, don’t play it, or turn the sound off.

It seems some molehills are always destined to be mountains. Maybe it’s time we brought this mountain to Mohammad.

Wow. that was a pretty good ending, don’t you think? I pulled that out of my head at the last second. sweet.

(edit: this is a video of the “offending” song):