While I admire your view, and your points are all valid and better than mine after re-evaluating them, I couldn’t embrace the same optimism.
Wherever I look I just see a downward trend. People aren’t getting more stupid or more lazy. They got less and less time to worry about anything else than surviving. Especially in horrible places like the US or some other third world countries. With two jobs and three kids there’s no capacity to act upon wrongs in the gaming-industry. And those who are well off don’t care because they just throw enough money at it.
And those few, like me, who don’t need to worry about the former while not giving in to the latter are probably a minority.
Look, I don’t think anybody has an obligation towards constructive optimism.
I do ask that those who don’t at least take care to not be destructive in their pessimism, or at least not to let those who are deliberately destructive to get in a position where they can be more destructive out of being despondent.
That’s the thing, right? It may not be your turn to make things better, but if you are mmindful in how you get out of the way somebody else may take things to the place where you can be. The part that worries me is how many people in that same spiral end up doing nothing when they get the chance, or so mad that they just want to tear things down without caring about what gets put in their place.
While I admire your view, and your points are all valid and better than mine after re-evaluating them, I couldn’t embrace the same optimism.
Wherever I look I just see a downward trend. People aren’t getting more stupid or more lazy. They got less and less time to worry about anything else than surviving. Especially in horrible places like the US or some other third world countries. With two jobs and three kids there’s no capacity to act upon wrongs in the gaming-industry. And those who are well off don’t care because they just throw enough money at it.
And those few, like me, who don’t need to worry about the former while not giving in to the latter are probably a minority.
It’s like Idiocracy…
Look, I don’t think anybody has an obligation towards constructive optimism.
I do ask that those who don’t at least take care to not be destructive in their pessimism, or at least not to let those who are deliberately destructive to get in a position where they can be more destructive out of being despondent.
That’s the thing, right? It may not be your turn to make things better, but if you are mmindful in how you get out of the way somebody else may take things to the place where you can be. The part that worries me is how many people in that same spiral end up doing nothing when they get the chance, or so mad that they just want to tear things down without caring about what gets put in their place.