Video
Game CEO Cheers Digital Tyranny
And
Technological Enslavement
This video is from a gaming
conference that was held this year
and the
speaker is Jesse Schell– a
professor at
Carnegie Mellon University and CEO
of a
video game company. It’s
important to watch the WHOLE video
to
understand how psychology is being
used
against us through computer games
to
slowly ease us into accepting the
kind of
surveillance we would have never
condoned
years ago. As more power is taken
from the hands of ordinary people
and they
find themselves working harder and
harder
for fewer and fewer real rewards,
they’re seeking escape and a sense
of personal achievement by
building
make-believe farms and creating
pretend empires through fake Mafia
families. Because, (similar to
our
Federal Reserve notes,)
the objects
obtained from these games are made
out of thin air, but without ANY
need for
physical resources to create
them, there
is no scarcity of reward to be
handed out.
People pay real money (real defined
as credit obtained from labor in
the real
world) for the chance to
one-up their
friends in what is ultimately just
a game.
Yet as Schell points out, games
are just the beginning. The
future
he outlines will bring
the structure
of these games into the real
world,
where our lives will be controlled
by
similar point systems.