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RDR2 is making me feel extremely sad (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago by CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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This isn't a complain about the game, neither a compliment.

It's something personal I guess, not related to anything else, but myself, I think I just need to vent.

Maybe the game romanticize way too much the life in the year around 1900 and the thing is I just love the life how they portrait it. The game is extremely immersive and it's hitting me hard.

Everything is so simple, there's so much respect between people, they live camping with a simple life, everybody trying to help to survive as they can, singing at the end of nights, having profound and philosophical talking. It's such a more human focused life.

Seeing a simple life like that and comparing to the modern world makes me feel sad. Today we have cars, cities, buildings, very few vegetation, a lot of pollution, everybody is so fixed on being clean, good looking, companies rule the world, people accepting being modern slaves in exchange of a little comfort and convenience. It's truly a disappointment to me.

I'd exchange 20-30 years living in a world like RDR2 shows than 70-80 years in the modern world. That's right, I'd rather die trying to hunt for food and learning how to survive in the woods than a massive boring life doing the exact same thing every single day in front of a computer.

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[–] reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I get it. It’s not that everything was better back then, it’s that the things that were better, were way better.

It’s a feeling of profound loss at what could have been if capitalism didn’t win.

[–] auntieclokwise@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

You would have had similar thoughts back then. Ever hear of the Gilded Age? The late 1800's was that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age The parallels to today are striking - to the point that many think we're in the second Gilded Age: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Gilded_Age . However, the late 1800's/early 1900's was also the beginning of the Progressive Era, which was the solution to many of the excesses of capitalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Era We STILL benefit from many of the advances that occurred during that time. It may not seem like it, but we're actually better off than they were back then, despite all the bad that has happened. The underlying ideology behind MAGA is to undo many of the reforms that happened during the progressive era. They won't succeed, not entirely - the changes are too baked into the fabric of the country to fully undo. Some of the reforms are enshrined in Constitutional Amendments that they don't have anywhere near the support to repeal.

But this should also be a source of hope. We've beat these people back once before, we can do it again. We can have a second Progressive Era. It'll probably have alot of talk of socialism this time, but socialism and progressivism have alot in common. And we're seeing support for this sort of thing rising in response to the excesses of capitalists, much like what was occurring in the late 1800's. It takes time for these sorts of movements to gain traction. But it's one of those slow then fast sorts of things.