Disco Elysium is more than a game, its a literal reshaping experience
As someone who was raised in a majorly conservative family due to christian values and other aspects, i was always inclined to right-winged ideologies and beliefs, i must admit i never cared enough to actually understand what conservatives actually believed i just assumed taxes and free market were good because 1.i thought taxes were basically stealing our hardworked money ( not entirely wrong but im not elaborating ) 2.i thought free market was actual freedom ( spoiler its not ), all of this alongside corrupt socialists parties that fucked my country, not to say that literal history books be making communist countries look like fucking hell and the villains...
So basically all my life i believed in center right ideals and in capitalism overall but again i never cared enough to educate myself on the matter... until this piece of divine work named Disco Elysium showed up to me and oh Lord im glad it did
Disco Elysium is an rpg where the protagonist ( a cop ) wakes up after a fucked up weekend drinking his ass off so much that he literally forgets who the fuck he is, "the whole point" of the game is to solve a crime alongside another cop named Kim Kitsuragi, in this the protagonist has basically a self discovery journey where he needs to learn everything from scratch about the world around him
After seeing that the game would revolve around this i thought to myself "why not actually try to make a play through where i simulate my beliefs into this character" and i did so until shit started making me question those same beliefs...
The game is set in Revachol, it used to be a monarchy but due to communist revolution its not anymore, problem is that same communist revolution basically did not happen to work very well, why? because Revachol was a major center of trade and all the countries around would not benefit from this revolution so they basically oppressed the city once again
With this stated i started to think "damn, why would they do that to people who just wanted freedom" started thinking with my brain ^_^
Anyways the game keeps unfolding i keep progressing and i start to question a lot of things happening in Revachol, characters ideologies, what the voices in my head think all off that culminated in a very confused state where i needed to decide what i should focus and believe on
Disco Elysium proposes 4 political views to be followed
Communism - basically what we know about it
Moralism- a centered belief that emphasizes status quo
UltraLiberals- pro free market so major capitalists
Fascism- what we know about it
Obviously i did think about what i wanted to follow and believe as someone who is questioning about tons of things, i tried to actually see and understand what the other side of coin is as a centered right individual... and, man like it was almost as refreshing as taking that cup of water at 3am, shit felt like i discovered an ancient secret and finally escaped from a cell where i was being imprisoned
The whole time i played the game i was searching things up about communism/socialism and how it works, why this does not happen or why that happens, some of the characters actions and quotes made me question what i valued, it made me want to search more about it and understand it better, despite Disco Elysium having very extreme political views presented it still has them implemented and how they work and i guess in the end of the day all i believed was a lie... and i never was a fucking conservative/liberal who cared more about money than people
icl I did ignorantly believe that communist consisted in the population being controlled and oppressed by the government and obviously all those things like you having to share you bed with a whole random family or your sandwich and car ( if yall did like 10 minutes of reasearch like i shouldve; which i did already; youd know personal property ≠ private property) but whatever
Not to say that Disco Elysium not only opened my vision to political views but also towards people, i feel like i care more you know, empathy, understanding, caring
As of right now im always fucking reading something related to communism/socialism and trying to understand how things like basic humans needs are profited under capitalism and no one cares but i guess right wing has a great job hypnotizing the masses and i can say it because i was (T ^ T)
Anyways
Disco Elysium is a fucking amazing interactive book where it literally talks to you and can really be so much impactful, im definitely going to replay this great ass game again cuz i missed a lot of things （＾Ｏ＾)
I also need some recommendations on communist books pls
I guess I was a Communist/Socialist all along
As someone who was raised in a majorly conservative family due to christian values and other aspects, i was always inclined to right-winged ideologies and beliefs, i must admit i never cared enough to actually understand what conservatives actually believed i just assumed taxes and free market were good because 1.i thought taxes were basically stealing our hardworked money ( not entirely wrong but im not elaborating ) 2.i thought free market was actual freedom ( spoiler its not ), all of this alongside corrupt socialists parties that fucked my country, not to say that literal history books be making communist countries look like fucking hell and the villains...
So basically all my life i believed in center right ideals and in capitalism overall but again i never cared enough to educate myself on the matter... until this piece of divine work named Disco Elysium showed up to me and oh Lord im glad it did
Disco Elysium is an rpg where the protagonist ( a cop ) wakes up after a fucked up weekend drinking his ass off so much that he literally forgets who the fuck he is, "the whole point" of the game is to solve a crime alongside another cop named Kim Kitsuragi, in this the protagonist has basically a self discovery journey where he needs to learn everything from scratch about the world around him
After seeing that the game would revolve around this i thought to myself "why not actually try to make a play through where i simulate my beliefs into this character" and i did so until shit started making me question those same beliefs...
The game is set in Revachol, it used to be a monarchy but due to communist revolution its not anymore, problem is that same communist revolution basically did not happen to work very well, why? because Revachol was a major center of trade and all the countries around would not benefit from this revolution so they basically oppressed the city once again
With this stated i started to think "damn, why would they do that to people who just wanted freedom" started thinking with my brain ^_^
Anyways the game keeps unfolding i keep progressing and i start to question a lot of things happening in Revachol, characters ideologies, what the voices in my head think all off that culminated in a very confused state where i needed to decide what i should focus and believe on
Disco Elysium proposes 4 political views to be followed
Communism - basically what we know about it
Moralism- a centered belief that emphasizes status quo
UltraLiberals- pro free market so major capitalists
Fascism- what we know about it
Obviously i did think about what i wanted to follow and believe as someone who is questioning about tons of things, i tried to actually see and understand what the other side of coin is as a centered right individual... and, man like it was almost as refreshing as taking that cup of water at 3am, shit felt like i discovered an ancient secret and finally escaped from a cell where i was being imprisoned
The whole time i played the game i was searching things up about communism/socialism and how it works, why this does not happen or why that happens, some of the characters actions and quotes made me question what i valued, it made me want to search more about it and understand it better, despite Disco Elysium having very extreme political views presented it still has them implemented and how they work and i guess in the end of the day all i believed was a lie... and i never was a fucking conservative/liberal who cared more about money than people
icl I did ignorantly believe that communist consisted in the population being controlled and oppressed by the government and obviously all those things like you having to share you bed with a whole random family or your sandwich and car ( if yall did like 10 minutes of reasearch like i shouldve; which i did already; youd know personal property ≠ private property) but whatever
Not to say that Disco Elysium not only opened my vision to political views but also towards people, i feel like i care more you know, empathy, understanding, caring
As of right now im always fucking reading something related to communism/socialism and trying to understand how things like basic humans needs are profited under capitalism and no one cares but i guess right wing has a great job hypnotizing the masses and i can say it because i was (T ^ T)
Anyways
Disco Elysium is a fucking amazing interactive book where it literally talks to you and can really be so much impactful, im definitely going to replay this great ass game again cuz i missed a lot of things （＾Ｏ＾)
I also need some recommendations on communist books pls
I guess I was a Communist/Socialist all along