> Former Buddhist.
The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat Sim City - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1352864 - May 2010 (43 comments)
A bit off topic are there any BitTorrent/ipfs effort to archive archive.org ?
Simply googling the title is usually enough to find an article's new home, when there is one.
There is something beautiful and dystopic over this.
I wonder when self driving mobile homes will be banned in NY ...
> There are a lot of other problems in the city hidden under the illusion of order and greatness: Suffocating air pollution, high unemployment, no fire stations, schools, or hospitals, a regimented lifestyle – this is the price that these sims pay for living in the city with the highest population. It’s a sick and twisted goal to strive towards. The ironic thing about it is the sims in Magnasanti tolerate it. They don’t rebel, or cause revolutions and social chaos. No one considers challenging the system by physical means since a hyper-efficient police state keeps them in line. They have all been successfully dumbed down, sickened with poor health, enslaved and mind-controlled just enough to keep this system going for thousands of years. 50,000 years to be exact. They are all imprisoned in space and time.
On the bright side, I included the paragraph that I found most enlightening (or endarkening?)
Thank you for letting me know :-/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-totalitarian-buddhist-wh...
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