Scrabble, Anonymous

But the games of instantly rewarded destruction, in which the characters and action are ready-made “action figures” and the only goal is “winning,” are designed to be addictive, and therefore may be hard to outgrow or replace. Compelled into an endless, meaningless feedback loop, the imagination is starved and sterilized.

But, again, the words don’t, can’t, come out and I sit there and the need to see the worst washes over me, quickly, eagerly.