DORIANDAWES'S PROFILE

author=Dyhalto

author=DorianDawes
When I say mankind is doomed, I do not mean that there will come an age in which a full-fledged apocalypse occurs and it is the end of all human life as we know, but that we will gradually lose all those things about ourselves that we once-cherished falling into a darkness where art is dead, individuality successfully squashed by the corporate greed that has so desperately waged war against it. The souls and hearts of man, kindness and love traded away for the approximations of it sold to us in pop songs and Hollywood movies. A world where tabloid celebrities take precedence over children who are brutalized by a government elected to protect and to serve.

I know what you're talking about.
You worry too much. Yes, life's going to get worse for a lot of people in the next decade or two. The GFC isn't over and 'winter' has yet to begin. But the smart will adapt and survive and afterwards proliferate their newfound values, and the sheep will just go die. Humanity goes through these cycles. Hell, part of the reason we have Art is because of this cycle.
Our parents had it good. But you and I and everyone else here (assuming an age of late teens, mid-to-late 20s) were born in an era where we'll have to actually work for a living. I don't mean the 9 to 5 ratrace for 30 years. I mean 10-20% yearly inflation, food shortages, power outages, oppressive government, high crime rates, etc. Great Depression, basically. We'll probably even have WW3.
Knowing what you know should invite less reason to sit around being a mope, and all the more reason to get up and strengthen yourself as a human being. Instead of sitting around saying "They caused this" and "I can't because", go out and educate yourself. The "life you lead and the love you've found" are pretty much counting on your strong shoulders, not your defeatist attitude.

As for the internet; the web is young, and western society is at the height of moral depravity. Let's wait and see how it looks in 2030.

There's a difference between having an attitude of defeatism and confessing a fear.

I go through cycles of bravado and weakness, as we all do. Having a negative view is reasonable so long as there is reason to justify it.

A defeatist attitude would be if I were expressing my own personal miseries or woes, which unlike the rest of the internet, I refuse to share with strangers on a forum. These instead are legitimate concerns that I have, and you are exactly right that it is for these concerns that I do seek to educate myself and create art that attempts to be a light exploding in the face of darkness, bold statements that point at the horrors of today in an attempt to provoke thought and also attempting, however feeble it might be, to try and change one damn thing about this really fucked up society we live in.

I'm sorry, I refuse to sugar-coat the matter. This planet sucks. Humanity sucks. We're terrible creatures who probably don't deserve to live here. We have fleeting moments of redeeming qualities that are easily overshadowed by our immense greed and petty arrogance. We place far too much importance on ourselves in the universe, a universe where entire galaxies are obliterated in a day.

There are those things about us that are redeemable, our capacity to love and create for instance, and these are the things in man that I find most precious because they are the few things that make us worthwhile creatures in a world that does not need us. I hold them very dear to me. I need them to exist, you might say, as desperate and melodramatic as some might see it.

You are right, there is no reason to sit around and mope, as that does nothing but create a self-fulfilling and self-aggrandizing prophecy for those who can sit around and go, "See, I told you so."

I'd rather not be one of those people.

I do what I can.

But in a forum created for expressing our fears, I felt that was not the place to boast of my own endeavors against these things I hate about our world, but instead a thread created to confess what scares us.

What scares me, I will repeat are not any of the aforementioned phobias discussed here, but our own downfall, and that downfall is not in the wiping out of mankind, but in the sacrifice of our souls and humanity on the altars of greed and progress.

It is not all the time a truly legitimate fear, but it does lurk there in the back of my mind. It has kept me up at night, the same as the fear of a prowler might have kept you up at night, or some other thing.

Some fears are silly, some are not.

None of us really have the right to judge someone else's fears as we are all wired differently, and what might be terrifying and earth-shattering for some, might be trivial and petty to another, and we're all in a race to legitimize ourselves to each other, because deep down we're all terrified, insecure, vulnerable motherfuckers.

But what if the subtlety is what makes it such a grand touch? It would have been ruined if Navi would have screamed out, "I THINK THERE'S A DYING SOLDIER IN AN ALLEY, LINK. HEY, HEY LISTEN."

In a way, the internet is a prime example of mankind's willful violence and tendency to destroy one another. Here we have the greatest source of communication mankind has ever known, and what does the majority of the world do with it?

Use it to distance ourselves further from each other. Social-networking allows us to quietly spy on each other's lives without once ever interacting with another human being. We send hateful messages to one another in futile verbal wars with no purpose save for to see someone else crumble.

There are children who find acts of rape and other non-consensual acts of sexuality attractive.

People live their lives online.

We're all gradually falling away into neat little boxes with our little corporate websites using our searches to sell us more shit.

When I say mankind is doomed, I do not mean that there will come an age in which a full-fledged apocalypse occurs and it is the end of all human life as we know, but that we will gradually lose all those things about ourselves that we once-cherished falling into a darkness where art is dead, individuality successfully squashed by the corporate greed that has so desperately waged war against it. The souls and hearts of man, kindness and love traded away for the approximations of it sold to us in pop songs and Hollywood movies. A world where tabloid celebrities take precedence over children who are brutalized by a government elected to protect and to serve.

These are the things i watch for, and they keep me awake at night dreading the future.

I am very happy that this game was featured. One of the best and most original titles to come out in a while. I truly enjoyed this experience and I'm extremely gratified to know it received its due recognition.

If there is a god then he has left this planet to its own inevitable demise eons ago, or perhaps derides a sick enjoyment from watching things he created collapse upon themselves, all the elements necessary to bring about the fall of the human race placed present within us from the very second the first man climbed up out of the dust or the sea.