Comment on What do you see that you wish others saw?
Carrolade@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How gamer culture is heavily based around the ability to have an accessible and more real-feeling power fantasy in your imagination to fill in for a lack of power in real life, and the damage this is doing to our societies.
Games allow you to feel like you’re very good at something. You used to have to earn that feeling in some way, but no longer. Now it’s purchasable for $40.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I agree with the observation but not the conclusion. It isn’t the people who use some digital escapism that are failing society, rather the reverse.
People feel powerless and helpless in real life, without any real perspective for betterment, because our economic system needs it that way. Getting to feel good for a bit in a digital world is an attempt at treatment, not the disease.
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Perhaps that’s also why superhero movies were so popular for a time recently.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
That’s my personal theory as well. Because we feel powerless we love stories of people who are very powerful and change the world for the better.
Personally I dislike it for much the same reason the op doesn’t like gaming: it teaches the people the wrong thing. It’s always a some hero saving everyone, never the people who have enough and save the world through unity and the destruction of the system.
One could almost call it capitalist propaganda
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Indeed. The message: you’re helpless. Just sit around and wait to be rescued. Any minute now…
Carrolade@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The people are the society, society is not something outside of you. That said, I agree it is an attempt at treatment. Just not a very wise one, it’s comparable to a drug addiction in its likelihood of actually improving a person’s situation in any concrete way.
So, I guess I’d describe it as an offshoot disease, that stems from another disease.
PersonalDevKit@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Por que no los dos? Why the urge to dilute it to a black or white issue? Why can’t it be the people and the current society? I am a gaming addict, I know it is up to me.to change that and not fall in the hole. Could there also be a society change, of course, but it is not 100% my problem or 100% societies problem.
I can fight my own phyche and make small gains, then spend that spare time to improve my community.
Society is fucked, but we can all try and make it a bit better