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[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I read about 25% of the book this is based on before giving up (too manifesto-y for me, and needed a different/better editor), but the thought of coupling a book with a game like this is pretty interesting — get the point of your argument across to people who might otherwise never engage with it (if not for the title, anyway)

[–] kugel7c@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I listened to the entire and it struck a chord with me, it might be because I'm similarly petite bourgeois as the authors or something. But if you couldn't get through it I might suggest softly that you read chapter 4 first (or only).

To me the order the book has it in makes sense, but it might be the wrong one for you. It explains the What for 3/4 and then carefully answers the Why with a short story in the last 1/4. It is essentially a manifesto with a reason to believe in it as the last part.

For me the reason it worked is because the walk through philosophy and history sufficiently grounded the authors claims toward the necessity of economic planning and rewilding and in combination with my prior beliefs made the utopia real.

The problem that unfortunately remains with this book is how we get there, but to me it seems reasonable to leave that part out for this book, not just because of the violence and messiness, but also because it seems like the much harder part to coherently write as well.

Edit: I've played one round of the game and it's fun, perhaps a bit easy after knowing the content of the book.

[–] Cybersteel@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pure hopium. The sooner mankind realizes the sheer inevitability of death, the sooner we can get on with our lives.

[–] kugel7c@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brother have you heard of both young people, and the concept of 'having a future', death might be inevitable, it's still better to think about and implement things to quell the suffering, as well as to continue living with hope than to revel in the fact that we're all dying.

Hope isn't at the bottom of the box of Pandora without reason, it's both, condemning us to strive and suffer, and the only way to make anything of it.

[–] Cybersteel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If to live is to suffer then isn't death where one could be truly at peace? Human Beings are but an infinitesimally blimp in the limitless bounds of... Space-Time.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To be honest, doomerism is turning into a death cult at this point, and it's getting weird dude.

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