I was catching up on the latest happenings regarding the SBI think, and I had a thought as I was watching a Yellow Flash video about that non-profit defending SBI with a Homeland Security grant.
If you can recall, I have said several times before that the D.C. bureaucrats really do believe the bullshit they spout when they talk about "extremism." OK, I can hear you asking, how does that apply here?
Well, Official D.C. has settled onto the belief that gaming fosters "extremism," and that gaming developers need resources to counter this "threat."
In short, Official D.C. doesn't view a gamer as much different than a Trump supporter.
I think that a lot of commentators covering the SBI thing on our side are cynically rolling their eyes over the way government is getting involved with this, and are not taking the threat represented by such involvement seriously. If government gets involved with this, as it increasingly looks like it will, well, GG won't be just a cultural movement in gaming any more.
If you want to know what it looks like when Government goes after "extremists," look at what is going on with Trump, and more importantly, what Official D.C. is doing to Trump's former staff. Going after law licenses via Bar complaints for nothing more than daring to represent Trump in court, and throwing not a few of them into jail on process crimes.
Bread. Circuses.
Don't fuck with bread, or circuses. We've known that since Roman times.
Inflation and weird shortages messing with bread, eat the bugs movements messing with bread. GG-related issues highlighting messing with circuses.
They have two jobs, but both are just "don't fuck around with it".
The thing these people want is for people to rely on them for providing the bread and the circuses
It’s an ego thing more than anything. These people want power and they want you to know the power they have over you
Partially, yes, but it's more a systematic and generational control thing.
They need a compliant serf caste. The idea is to use the distribution of bread to make people reliant on government, and use the propaganda-filled circuses to keep people brainwashed.
People old enough to remember the better times may not buy into the bread and circus paradigm being rolled out by the leaders of Western nations, but the next generation(s) will grow up under these conditions and will be much more subservient.
That's impossible for someone with the government stooge mindset. You could set them in front of a desk with a PC that had access to all the world's entertainment and a red button labelled FUCKING TOUCH THIS AND DIE, and in 10 minutes, the button would be pressed.