Moving away from that to an explicit, game-rules approach to society has been a disaster.

Well, if you want some idea of why they hate games so much: I was actually the best gamer in the world at one point, and they've been trying to recruit me to help them "gamify" life since them. But instead of buying in to their plans I've been spending my time calling them retarded in increasingly elaborate detail for even attempting such a thing.

I guess the world before now was built upon copying notable individuals. Yet rather than actually being successful at controlling the world as they imagined they had been, the world had routed it's way around their bullshit and found a way to persist in spite of it. Now that they're employing increasingly forceful technologies in an attempt to fix what they consider to be flaws in their plans, they are instead removing everything which used to be keeping them alive despite their insanity.

It's quite sad, and they're not going to stop, since they're already thousands of years invested in their scheming. Best make plans for how you're going to roll with the fall once it all comes to a head.