The Air Force is in charge of the nukes However, your point is still valid

I've been playing N64 games with my friends since middle school. We still play semi-regularly, albeit now it's a drinking game. Some games (multiplayer mostly) provide much more than 80 hrs of fun. Examples: super smash brothers, mario kart, mario party, blitz.

Interactivity is simply more engaging (more fun) than passive entertainment.

Ballmer Peak

It pains me to say that would be a revolution in and of itself. Case in point: voter turnout in the US

In the Great Depression, unemployment was approximately 29%, so another depression could leave us in a similar state (this would also injure the corporations, decreasing their power and influence).

How about Happiness? Loyalty? Obedience?
As we've seen numerous times (American Revolution, Indian Independence, Viet Nam, Afghanistan, and now Iraq), the underdog (both in terms of money and technology) can often give the "superior" faction a run for their money.

I'm not a historian, but I think when a group of people initiate a revolution, it is because the current state of affairs is unacceptable to them, and they are willing to do *anything* to change it. When that happens, the majority of long-term concern goes out the window.

you may jest, but the forefathers pointed out that people have the right to overthrow their government:

...that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the people to alter or abolish it

-The Declaration of Independence

(emphasis mine)

personally, I'm for negative voting

there, fixed that for you