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"Never too late, if SMcA shall repent". ~ not Ben Jonson
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
That's part of it, the loitering over a landing pad. But I meant transporting slaves, illegal drugs and other contraband. Nor would I assassinate criminals for money without trying to disable and capture them first. Intentionally killing an accused murderer without a trial without giving him a chance to surrender is not justice.
But in a video game? It's just a game. No one is actually dying.
For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of harmony with the universe. For those, however, in whom the authorized signs no longer work (or if working, produce deviant effects), there follows inevitably a sense both of dissociation from the local social nexus and of quest, within and without, for life, which the brain will take to be for 'meaning'. ~ Joseph Campbell
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The above quote describes precisely the status of the disenfranchised here in the States. Aside from wealth or celebrity, there is no reverence for anything except the gratification of the immediate present.
Although "actions speak louder than words", there is a place indeed for the reverence of a "mere" idea. And 'ideas" are what video games are about.
Myths, fables and other inspirational stories may be fiction, but they do give real and tangible meaning to many lives. If only more people would read and apply the thesis' of Joseph Campbell....A true pathfinder.
Follow your Bliss, Commanders!
It's interesting that we are witnessing in the modern world, a return to the ideology that Campbell (et al over the centuries) have outlined, and it's not just the US. It's all states, groups or collectives that are now herded through mis-information. Through diminishing returns on engagement.
To keep on with KellyR's example...with the "dissociation" a gamer is able to exploit, in order to explore both the game being played and the far reaches of one's psche that would otherwise remain untapped, we can habitualise such behaviours. As a result we have been witnessing a more frequent instances of such behaviours, in people habitualising the same level of dissociation from their own "real life" parameters. Such as knowing how trustworthy Facebook is, but using it anyway. How suspect MSM has become, but choosing to buy into the reality presstituted, as the alternative is too scary to contemplate. Or believing the promises of your suppliers as verbatim, if proven otherwise as you can not do without their product. There are many other examples.
One wonders when the behaviours and practices learned and experimented on, within game parameters...become disassociated with the game itself. And exactly how forceful the event would be if en mass, if the purveyor of such powerful games, ever allow the idea, myth and institution created, to become de-valued, or at worst, irrelevant through editing established "Lore".
Same pattern applies to the US, as many other examples.
It's fascinating stuff.
"We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves." ~ Ada Lovelace
To keep on with KellyR's example...with the "dissociation" a gamer is able to exploit, in order to explore both the game being played and the far reaches of one's psche that would otherwise remain untapped, we can habitualise such behaviours. As a result we have been witnessing a more frequent instances of such behaviours, in people habitualising the same level of dissociation from their own "real life" parameters. Such as knowing how trustworthy Facebook is, but using it anyway. How suspect MSM has become, but choosing to buy into the reality presstituted, as the alternative is too scary to contemplate. Or believing the promises of your suppliers as verbatim, if proven otherwise as you can not do without their product. There are many other examples.
One wonders when the behaviours and practices learned and experimented on, within game parameters...become disassociated with the game itself. And exactly how forceful the event would be if en mass, if the purveyor of such powerful games, ever allow the idea, myth and institution created, to become de-valued, or at worst, irrelevant through editing established "Lore".
Same pattern applies to the US, as many other examples.
It's fascinating stuff.
"We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves." ~ Ada Lovelace
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Not only must we address the current guise of misinformation but also the eons long mass brainwashing of obsolete social and cultural traditions.
Herein lies the very significant ethical responsibility of the game developer? Aside from Star Wars and comic books what are the current relevant mythologies? Technological evolution must be accompanied by an ethical evolution. Otherwise human beings might suffer the fate of the Guardians?
Agreed
I think it's as simple as understanding that due to these possible factors, leadership in developing functional culture around a game is just as equally important, as allowing it to evolve by itself.
You could start a whole new thread on this thinking....
But control them how? Within what framework?
One would hope that if you owned the IP to a well established and popular mythos, you didn't spend all your time trying to obfuscate the purpose at it's centre...
I guess that's where altruism is counter-productive to capitalistic modernity.
I think it's as simple as understanding that due to these possible factors, leadership in developing functional culture around a game is just as equally important, as allowing it to evolve by itself.
You could start a whole new thread on this thinking....
But control them how? Within what framework?
One would hope that if you owned the IP to a well established and popular mythos, you didn't spend all your time trying to obfuscate the purpose at it's centre...
I guess that's where altruism is counter-productive to capitalistic modernity.
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I've always found the Shroedinger's cat thought experiment to be idiotic. The cat will either be alive or dead. If it survived, it survived; our observation of the result does not affect or cause the result. If it died, then it died. Our observation of it's dead body didn't cause the death; it would be dead no matter if we observe it or not.
This is a very poor way to express quantum physics. Light can affect the speed and trajectory of quantum particles. It cannot affect the speed and trajectory of micro or macro sized objects.
I thought the whole point was that the very act of observing a quantum experiment changed the outcome? (or has quantum physics changed since the last popular science book I read on it 10 years ago?).
It changes every time you open the book......
baddum tish - gz, you just won the internet [haha]
Thank you. I'd like to dedicate my prize to all those unloved cats who made the ultimate sacrifice for science as various boxes were opened in physics laboratories over the years.
And you change everytime you open the book.