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We have bodies and dominion for embodied souls will always happen in physical space, not mental space.
The key to parenting boys is removing the possibility for “empty calories”, i.e. faux dominion of faux worlds. Most of the time, this looks like enforcing the conditions necessary for boredom, so kids get habituated to using their energy and to innovate and make things. To learn the rules of the physical world, come to respect them, and then manipulate them and create with them. That’s what dominion is.
Video games aren’t evil; they aren’t even all that bad. Good things come from video games, especially when played in groups. But they can only be a very very small part of the American boy diet, because the high they offer is easier to obtain than nearly any other, and humans will always seek out the easy thrill first, before venturing to the harder to obtain, more difficult thrill. You want to create the conditions necessary to force your boys to venture out and do things.
Discomfort/boredom + energy/virility = destruction. Endure that step and go past it to get to ingenuity and creative energy.
I used to lock my sons outside and force them to be on the ranch bored for most of the day. Yes I really did lock them outside, yes this was only possible because we had acreage, and yes—this precise reason is why we own our ranch.