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Jun. 24th, 2022 02:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariWhen I was a kid, I was really into Infocom Text Adventure games. There was one, though, that really stuck with me called "A Mind Forever Voyaging." It was witten in 1985, and was pretty much a pushback on Reagan era politics, depicting a future under conservatism.
You're a computer simulation of a person, living ten years in the future under a conservative "National Plan." At the ten year mark, things are awesome, and based on that simulation, Congress votes to put the plan in action. Your creator, though, decides he's suspicious of the plan, and has you go 20, 30, 40 and 50 years into the future on the plan.
The results are horrific. A cult begins to take sway in the government, the rich become very rich, the middle class dwindles. Police brutality goes on the rise, eventually becoming the norm. Government funded services go away to become underfunded private capitalist services. Eventually, it goes to a very very very bad place.
This game has made looking at United States Politics a nightmare. I've been watching us go down this same path since the 90s and knowing how that game ends, it's going to get a whole lot worse for us, a whole lot better for them, and in the end, we both go down in flames.
It's hardly a subtle game. But we live in hardly subtle times: https://www.pcgamer.com/saturday-crapshoot-a-mind-forever-voyaging/
You're a computer simulation of a person, living ten years in the future under a conservative "National Plan." At the ten year mark, things are awesome, and based on that simulation, Congress votes to put the plan in action. Your creator, though, decides he's suspicious of the plan, and has you go 20, 30, 40 and 50 years into the future on the plan.
The results are horrific. A cult begins to take sway in the government, the rich become very rich, the middle class dwindles. Police brutality goes on the rise, eventually becoming the norm. Government funded services go away to become underfunded private capitalist services. Eventually, it goes to a very very very bad place.
This game has made looking at United States Politics a nightmare. I've been watching us go down this same path since the 90s and knowing how that game ends, it's going to get a whole lot worse for us, a whole lot better for them, and in the end, we both go down in flames.
It's hardly a subtle game. But we live in hardly subtle times: https://www.pcgamer.com/saturday-crapshoot-a-mind-forever-voyaging/
