I dont think the deranged voyuer living off of garbage and bug cum is a good role model
I mean, it’s a cool sentiment. But the horrible thing is the bourgeoisie are human. That’s what makes their greed and desire to inflict suffering more grotesque.
Yes, they may be human, but the class logic they follow isn’t. The cold calculus of profit subverts all their human emotions and empathy, allowing themselves to justify the most horrible crimes they are “forced” to commit. Even if one human refuses, the system ensures there’s countless more behind them to serve as their replacement, ready to sink to new lows of depravity for material gain. In my opinion, the efficiency with which capitalism can strip a human of the best parts of humanity and encourage the worst is one of its most terrifying aspects:
Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
Ok I gotta play this game, it’s been sitting in my library for over a year now
Perfectly executed character, the ultimate personification of one of the game’s central themes: “correctness”
He pretty much spits facts when you ask about his motivations, he correctly identifies the true drivers of the problems you navigate through the game, his actions were, broadly, “correct.” But in a vacuum, what is his correctness worth? DE as a whole is pretty stiffly critical towards the need to be Right, especially if it comes at the expense of friendships and human relationships. After all, internalizing communism in the game makes you into a “very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth” who is still miserable.
I could go for ten more paragraphs about this, like the irony of his title of “deserter” despite him being one of the only people left who still holds on to the cause of Scientific Communism (he has deserted society instead), or how he’s part of the game’s indictment of the romantic idea of the “eternal vigil.” But I’ll restrain myself so that Kim won’t have to clear his throat at me.
I don’t mean it like “don’t be informed,” just that being correct is not inherently productive, like the game is telling you to at least try and take part in the society that you know to be tragically out of balance. (The game wants you to take Matt Christman’s grill pill)
