Thanks for the point dang. Is it just me find it disturbing that the original article's referencing page is gone, and now we had to go to wayback machine to get a copy.
A bit off topic are there any BitTorrent/ipfs effort to archive archive.org ?
It's been a long time since I've last seen the youtube video this references. It had a huge impact on me but in a way I never tried to quantify. It really is a temple in the classical sense of the term.
> 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.
In case the youtube embedding doesn't work, here's the original video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTJQTc-TqpU
Discussed at the time:
The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat Sim City - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1352864 - May 2010 (43 comments)
Thanks for the point dang. Is it just me find it disturbing that the original article's referencing page is gone, and now we had to go to wayback machine to get a copy.
A bit off topic are there any BitTorrent/ipfs effort to archive archive.org ?
filmmaker John Wilson (host of the HBO Show how to with John Wilson) made a documentary inspired by Magnasanti: https://vimeo.com/238073511
It's been a long time since I've last seen the youtube video this references. It had a huge impact on me but in a way I never tried to quantify. It really is a temple in the classical sense of the term.
> Are you a practicing Buddhist?
> Former Buddhist.
Former buddhist = didn't get it
Agreed.
No, I'm not a practicing Buddhist. I've perfected it.
One of the YouTube comments led me to the VICE interview with the creator, Vincent Ocasla: https://www.vice.com/en/article/q-a-vincent-ocasla-the-22-ye...
> 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.
One of the yt comments led you back to OP's submitted article?
Lol, wow, just goes to show that I tend to read the comments more than the article. Caught red-handed and face-palmed.
On the bright side, I included the paragraph that I found most enlightening (or endarkening?)
Thank you for letting me know :-/
Why the archive link?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-totalitarian-buddhist-wh...
The 5 minute city.
Why with a few more lanes for cars we could eradicate cities entirely and drive all day every day