Disco Elysium for 12 year olds / Becky Chambers fans. (I am hard on it because it begins by humanising every character and portraying them as having valid motivations and sympathetic sides - until heaven forfend an Executive appears, a man who wants nothing but control for its own sake, or maybe he wants it because he prefers people to be sad than happy. Thought terminating cliche.)
Worrying about coordination and learning from past utopian failures is for SUCKERS and talking about scarcity is for BUREAUCRATS all this space station needs is BRUTE MUTUALIST FORCE, cooperatoomers.
Eshe: “these people aren't an increased strain, they are living people… They are administrators, which means they are interested only in their own power... When people become administrators, they give up something. Some part of being human goes away. They start talking about the greater good, the systems, the ways in which their hands are tied "
THE MAN: "This childish crusade will only bring more harm"
[It does]
MANCHILD: "If that is true, it is only because your own council is a corrupt and decrepit institution... I will never be like you, I never wish to hold power in my hand, for any purpose... I follow my heart"
There are unintended ironies. In the commune, you can dump your worst dice and they feed you all the same. They won't feed you if you don't work a token amount though. Spending one dice gambling with the old ladies gets you 3 days of food (with the haggling upgrade) where hoeing in the kibbutz gets you 1 - indicting the hippie subsistence model.
The Eshe refugee banzai stuff is an amusing rejection of systemic change. To change the world, just follow your heart and do the single most short sighted thing you can see. Bring an unlocked crate of guns, that’s bound to help.
I enjoyed it, finished in one sitting.
Worrying about coordination and learning from past utopian failures is for SUCKERS and talking about scarcity is for BUREAUCRATS all this space station needs is BRUTE MUTUALIST FORCE, cooperatoomers.
Eshe: “these people aren't an increased strain, they are living people… They are administrators, which means they are interested only in their own power... When people become administrators, they give up something. Some part of being human goes away. They start talking about the greater good, the systems, the ways in which their hands are tied "
THE MAN: "This childish crusade will only bring more harm"
[It does]
MANCHILD: "If that is true, it is only because your own council is a corrupt and decrepit institution... I will never be like you, I never wish to hold power in my hand, for any purpose... I follow my heart"
There are unintended ironies. In the commune, you can dump your worst dice and they feed you all the same. They won't feed you if you don't work a token amount though. Spending one dice gambling with the old ladies gets you 3 days of food (with the haggling upgrade) where hoeing in the kibbutz gets you 1 - indicting the hippie subsistence model.
The Eshe refugee banzai stuff is an amusing rejection of systemic change. To change the world, just follow your heart and do the single most short sighted thing you can see. Bring an unlocked crate of guns, that’s bound to help.
I enjoyed it, finished in one sitting.