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i think what the hell happened more recently is a phenomenon i keep hearing more and more about (and i’m 33 but is making me feel old as hell because i am not nor really ever have been a gamer): the game-ification of politics.

how i think it’ll be applied: ironing out humans so everyone conforms to some easily assigned role.

what the roles will be for: no new model of life is emerging, so things are returning to god-kings and technological feudalism.

people are looking toward politics to solve problems these days, and not economics (communism itself a model of feudalism whereby everyone has to conform to an idea of the dictatorship of one class). people seem to want some vague notion of safety, when capitalism as well as anarchy are dances with precarity (capitalism also being an individualizing phenomenon under its predatory, pathological ‘fuck you, i’m out to get mine).

what can we do about the gameification of politics, about striking some sort of balance between individualism and collectivism? i wanna be me and do my own shit, but i miss having friends and sharing food with people...i don’t just want my identity to be only online as part of the hive.