From my perspective, that's an amazing idea for a setting and I am all for seeing something that explores those ideas and seeing what players make of it. But that's why I play games like Microscope and Kingdom, because I have an interest in settings that let me play with ideas which are not necessarily my own.
And that's the problem, as far as the crusading people in question are concerned: they cannot imagine, literally cannot imagine, that someone else could play with an idea that they find distasteful. They cannot conceive of the idea of play, in a very real and direct sense. Which is bad in mainstream culture and society – but it stands out as truly aberrant in an industry which is grounded and forged from the idea that people can play characters and societies which are unlike themselves.
In their mind, everything, every representation, every icon, must conform to what they think of as The Best World because the alternative might lead people to imagine that things could be different.
It is, in essence, the act of the religious. They have a religion, they have a dogma, and if you espouse a different view or even say that you want to pretend a different view for a little while, you are a heretic and must be burned.
These are the same people who cannot differentiate actors and roles. They see an actor, they see that actor betray characters who mainly act in ways they approve of, and they immediately transfer or that approval and trust to the actor. The actor then takes a different job, please a different role, and pretends to be someone who doesn't believe things that the crowd does and suddenly they, as people, are anathema. It doesn't help that the Hollywood mindset likes to cultivate this association because it feeds their egos and makes them feel good about themselves for no real investment.
Deconstructing the social contexts that mainstream actors cultivate without really thinking about it is a thesis for another day.
In this case, however, we just have people who cannot allow ThoughtCrime because to entertain bad-thought is to espouse bad-thought. To play with bad ideas to explore them, to see them, is to hold them. To create abstract worlds in which the axiomatic, dogmatic basis of their judgment is challenged – whether or not it's completely fictional – is, in their minds, a terroristic act.
They are consumed by their religion. They are acting in a way which is deeply and completely consistent with the zealotry they constantly tell us about.
It's a religious belief. They treated like a religious belief. They pursuant like a religious belief. They treated like a religious belief. The least we can do is take them at their word.
They are the new Religious Right (Religious Left) now that the actual Religious Right has found better things to do.
If we think about debating with them and dealing with them as though they were part of a religious cult, strategies and methodologies which would not normally come up become obvious. That's what we need to do.
From my perspective, that's an amazing idea for a setting and I am all for seeing something that explores those ideas and seeing what players make of it. But that's why I play games like Microscope and Kingdom, because I have an interest in settings that let me play with ideas which are not necessarily my own.
And that's the problem, as far as the crusading people in question are concerned: they cannot imagine, literally cannot imagine, that someone else could play with an idea that they find distasteful. They cannot conceive of the idea of play, in a very real and direct sense. Which is bad in mainstream culture and society – but it stands out as truly aberrant in an industry which is grounded and forged from the idea that people can play characters and societies which are unlike themselves.
In their mind, everything, every representation, every icon, must conform to what they think of as The Best World because the alternative might lead people to imagine that things could be different.
It is, in essence, the act of the religious. They have a religion, they have a dogma, and if you espouse a different view or even say that you want to pretend a different view for a little while, you are a heretic and must be burned.
These are the same people who cannot differentiate actors and roles. They see an actor, they see that actor betray characters who mainly act in ways they approve of, and they immediately transfer or that approval and trust to the actor. The actor then takes a different job, please a different role, and pretends to be someone who doesn't believe things that the crowd does and suddenly they, as people, are anathema. It doesn't help that the Hollywood mindset likes to cultivate this association because it feeds their egos and makes them feel good about themselves for no real investment.
Deconstructing the social contexts that mainstream actors cultivate without really thinking about it is a thesis for another day.
In this case, however, we just have people who cannot allow ThoughtCrime because to entertain bad-thought is to espouse bad-thought. To play with bad ideas to explore them, to see them, is to hold them. To create abstract worlds in which the axiomatic, dogmatic basis of their judgment is challenged – whether or not it's completely fictional – is, in their minds, a terroristic act.
They are consumed by their religion. They are acting in a way which is deeply and completely consistent with the zealotry they constantly tell us about.
It's a religious belief. They treated like a religious belief. They pursuant like a religious belief. They treated like a religious belief. The least we can do is take them at their word.
They are the new Religious Right (Religious Left) now that the actual Religious Right has found better things to do.
If we think about debating with them and dealing with them as though they were part of a religious cult, strategies and methodologies which would not normally come up become obvious. That's what we need to do.