AbNormalHumanBeing
@AbNormalHumanBeing@piefed.world
Some weird, German communist, hello. Obsessed with philosophy (German Idealism and its subsequent evolutions) and history (mainly everything since the French Revolution), as well as the Fediverse. Secondarily obsessed with video games as a cultural medium. Also somewhat able to program, but not that good.
- Summer Eternal & The Radical Dream To Transform The Games Industry - Aleksandar Gavrilović Interviewwww.youtube.com ↗Submitted 1 hour ago to games@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on It's Time We Talked about Disco Elysium, Again - People Make Games 1 week ago:
To give them some leeway - it seems that wasn't for lack of trying to get more statements from other people involved, and they did try to provide statements by all involved parties were relevant with what they had available.
- Comment on It's Time We Talked about Disco Elysium, Again - People Make Games 1 week ago:
That was an interesting summary of the happenings since last time, and I appreciate them delving into the criticisms of their last documentary - which I think was overall also a good work of research overall, even if the mistakes they made (and acknowledged) were real.
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- Comment on ‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse 3 weeks ago:
Humans just can’t seem to stop being dicks
It's interesting, because the work itself seems to have the exact opposite thesis: Humans on average aren't dicks, but inequality and the interests of a few elites with essentially personality disorders the way he frames it, amplify our worst tendencies. For many thousands of years of pre-history, archaeological evidence and anthropological observations clearly show humanity in much more egalitarian societies. The example he uses is of the Khoisan people:
All Goliaths, however, contain the seeds of their own demise, he says: “They are cursed and this is because of inequality.” Inequality does not arise because all people are greedy. They are not, he says. The Khoisan peoples in southern Africa, for example, shared and preserved common lands for thousands of years despite the temptation to grab more.
Instead, it is the few people high in the dark triad who fall into races for resources, arms and status, he says. “Then as elites extract more wealth from the people and the land, they make societies more fragile, leading to infighting, corruption, immiseration of the masses, less healthy people, overexpansion, environmental degradation and poor decision making by a small oligarchy. The hollowed-out shell of a society is eventually cracked asunder by shocks such as disease, war or climate change.”
In general, it's not a very controversial take, that the current (i.e. of the past ~5k years) inequality did not arise as a natural state but became only possible through surplus.