That's pretty good. I wholly agree that the people comparable to "meta-gamers" are the same type of people who are ruining the fucking planet, largely by harnessing/weaponizing capitalism.
The religious stuff is interesting and I follow it, I guess you're arguing that it was a synthesis of emergent capitalism and the religious foundations that it had to reconcile with - at this point I guess it just seems superfluous but perhaps that is just me being very alienated from the religious communities.
When I've been constructing games there are always those who seek to dominate by bending/breaking the rules which were clearly intended to foster the "balance" of said game. These people are useful for refining rules/mechanisms to a point which properly contains them. At no point should these monstrous individuals not be contained - I think this is one of the many tasks set before socialism.
That's pretty good. I wholly agree that the people comparable to "meta-gamers" are the same type of people who are ruining the fucking planet, largely by harnessing/weaponizing capitalism.
The religious stuff is interesting and I follow it, I guess you're arguing that it was a synthesis of emergent capitalism and the religious foundations that it had to reconcile with - at this point I guess it just seems superfluous but perhaps that is just me being very alienated from the religious communities.
When I've been constructing games there are always those who seek to dominate by bending/breaking the rules which were clearly intended to foster the "balance" of said game. These people are useful for refining rules/mechanisms to a point which properly contains them. At no point should these monstrous individuals not be contained - I think this is one of the many tasks set before socialism.