Hal Halpin: Resolutions and Change

Posted by Dan on January 21, 2009

Hal Halpin has his monthly column up at GameDaily, and it’s relevant to the inauguration.

In thinking about subjects for this month’s column, we were struck with two subjects that seem obvious choices, resolutions, because of the New Year, and change, in reference to today’s historic swearing in of our next president. In reality, these are one in the same thing and are as important for us collectively as they are for us individually.

I’ve commented in the media a bunch of times recently about what the new administration’s impact on games may be, so if you’re interested in that you can find one such example here. With regard to effecting change ourselves however, this is something that we have much more control over. We must be willing to be the vehicle for the change that we want to see happen. Scratch that. Instead, I’ll defer to Mahatma Gandhi: “You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.”

The point is: we are empowered by our ability to act. We are enabled by tools that we have readily available. And we are a passionate, vocal and opinionated people. The age of change isn’t upon us because of the start of a new year, or because we have a new president. It is because the time has come for us to step up and use our respective and collective voices.

Let us make that – getting personally…individually…involved – be our New Year’s resolution, honoring of today, or whatever else helps rationalize doing the right thing. And unlike losing weight, quitting smoking or any other standard, this is one that we can and should commit to not because it’s easy, but because it’s right and because it’s behooves us all.

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Hal Halpin is the president of the Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA).

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