/lit/ - Literature

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I used to be fairly interested in politics because I felt that I'd identified most of the reasons why everything around us was going to shit (for the sake of the following it doesn't really matter if I was right or not). I even had solutions lined up and all. However, the more I kept debating the people around me, the more I started hating them. Because even after convincing them through logical arguments, they simply acknowledged that I was right and changed absolutely nothing.

I realized after a while that there are two kinds of people in the world. Ones that can infer the truth without having to experience it, and those who need to make deep personal experiences to change their core programming. The former type of people is very rare, while the latter is very useless.

The solution here is obviously that one should focus one's energy on the player characters. The NPCs obviously live under a faith-based system of social orthodoxy, and will simply follow whatever is socially accepted. Therefore, one need not bother with them, for they shall fall in line when one becomes the person who determines social norms.

However, instead of focusing on the solution, I instead looked at what would happen were I to actually succeed. Through great sacrifice to myself, in terms of time investment and personal safety, I would embark on a journey with a very low chances of success, to forcefully herd the sheep and my compatriots towards a better future. (What I consider as a better future remains irrelevant.)

I would save civilization, or my country, or my ethnicity! Or whatever you’re personally fighting for. There remains only one issue. By saving society. I would have enabled the idiots amongst us, who had been so pathetically manipulated by promises of utopia, of endless love and prosperity, to get away with their frankly disgusting display of collective stupidity. I refused to abide by that outcome, and thusly, form that point on, when someone asks me about my view on politics, I simply began saying that I am apolitical (because most of you just aren’t worth saving).

It may seem a bit petty, that I would condemn myself and other good men to a fate brought upon us by manipulative elites and foolish hedonists. But there isn’t really any price I’m not willing to pay to see the subhuman trash which collectively brought us into this situation eat their just-desserts.

It’s not like I’ll be in real personal danger anyway. I know when to make my hasty retreat to some irrelevant island nation, and actually have the funds to do so.