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<p>Societies burdened with governments require pressure valves. Whether it is the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Good-Evil-Impact-Course-Civilization/dp/1568332351/">tax shelter</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porn_addiction">porn</a>, from <a href="http://kotaku.com/5972316/all-my-life-ive-been-told-i-was-special-it-was-a-lie">EverQuest</a> to <a href="http://freedomfeens.com/blog/2012/12/18/why-im-leaving-facebook-and-where-to-find-me-online/">Facebook</a>. Humanity constructs another <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walled_garden_%28technology%29">ideal shibboleth</a> to lose themselves inside almost daily. Those who do not understand the individual idiom that each insider to these systems "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok">groks</a>" will likely <a href="http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/45380/what-is-the-story-behind-get-off-my-lawn#45383">react predictably</a> upon seeing it, without even acknowledging how alien their paradigm is to those outside <em>his</em> lawn. Even now, I suspect I've "<a href="https://survivalspeech.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/hello-world/">lost</a>" some of you reading who do not share in my set of life experiences, consisting of indoctrination, pop culture and anarcho-capitalism. Well, that and the cliched teaser image and title that are <a href="https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Trying_too_hard">trying too hard</a> to be painfully hipster (<a href="http://teodesian.net/index.php?nav=7&post=projects/blog/21-Phobos%20Ozymandias.post">as usual</a>).</p>
<p>If, however, I haven't <a href="http://www.subzin.com/s/pushing+me+away">alienated</a> you yet, then there's a good point to be made here. Due to all value being <a href="http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value">subjective</a>, even "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ">reality</a>" doesn't have a monopoly on where we choose to "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down">live</a>" mentally. Indeed, even the science done on this <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-neuroscience-of-your-brain-on-fiction.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">seems to concur</a>. As such, whichever "<a href="http://wigucomics.com/mais/index.php?comic=1">reality</a>" we choose to live in will likely be the one with the best <em>percieved</em> return for the least required effort. Let me put it another way, through the paradigm of video games. Would you rather play "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_&_Teller%27s_Smoke_and_Mirrors">Wait in line at the DMV</a>" or "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Suit_Larry">BonerQuest</a>"? Life under the state seems a lot more like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_no_Ch%C5%8Dsenj%C5%8D">Takeshi no Chosenjo</a> than anything you'd actually <em>want</em> to play.</p>
<p>It should come as no surprise that <a href="http://www.theesa.com/facts/pdfs/VideoGames21stCentury_2010.pdf">more money went towards buying video games in 2010</a> (US Only) than <a href="https://secure.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/13/obama-fundraising-2012-dnc_n_896813.html">was sent to the DNC for the purpose of getting the Magic Negro reelected</a> in 2012 - a difference of over <em>10 Billion</em> Dollars. I suspect there were more gamers than <a href="http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/results/main">voters</a> this year too, but to my knowledge, that appears to be an unconfirmed suspicion without any good statistical evidence gathered at this point. Certainly if you just switch over to <a href="http://www.internetworldstats.com/top20.htm">internet</a> or <a href="http://www.worldtvpc.com/blog/tv-viewing-figures-reach-all-time-high/">TV users</a> as your pool, you beat it easily. It is common knowledge by this point that Internet and TV fulfill much the same purpose as video games to the average user anyways, so this certainly isn't just comparing apples to oranges.</p>
<p>Society is necessarily going to be a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivWY9wn5ps">mirror</a> of the people, so next time you get the urge to castigate some youngun' for playing video games, listening to devil music or <a href="http://www.freedomfeens.com/glossary-for-freedom-feens/">snorting krokodil off the ass of a tranny hooker</a>, think about the society that <a href="https://encyclopediadramatica.se/You"><em>you</em></a> helped to <a href="http://freedomfeens.com/blog/2012/12/15/school-shootings-i-blame-the-state/">create</a> before sitting back down to <a href="https://gawker.com/5610255/confirmed-only-old-people-watch-tv">watch Fox News</a>.</p>
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<p>Societies burdened with governments require pressure valves. Whether it is the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Good-Evil-Impact-Course-Civilization/dp/1568332351/">tax shelter</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porn_addiction">porn</a>, from <a href="http://kotaku.com/5972316/all-my-life-ive-been-told-i-was-special-it-was-a-lie">EverQuest</a> to <a href="http://freedomfeens.com/blog/2012/12/18/why-im-leaving-facebook-and-where-to-find-me-online/">Facebook</a>. Humanity constructs another <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walled_garden_%28technology%29">ideal shibboleth</a> to lose themselves inside almost daily. Those who do not understand the individual idiom that each insider to these systems "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok">groks</a>" will likely <a href="http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/45380/what-is-the-story-behind-get-off-my-lawn#45383">react predictably</a> upon seeing it, without even acknowledging how alien their paradigm is to those outside <em>his</em> lawn. Even now, I suspect I've "<a href="https://survivalspeech.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/hello-world/">lost</a>" some of you reading who do not share in my set of life experiences, consisting of indoctrination, pop culture and anarcho-capitalism. Well, that and the cliched teaser image and title that are <a href="https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Trying_too_hard">trying too hard</a> to be painfully hipster (<a href="http://teodesian.net/index.php?nav=7&post=projects/blog/21-Phobos%20Ozymandias.post">as usual</a>).</p>
<p>If, however, I haven't <a href="http://www.subzin.com/s/pushing+me+away">alienated</a> you yet, then there's a good point to be made here. Due to all value being <a href="http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value">subjective</a>, even "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ">reality</a>" doesn't have a monopoly on where we choose to "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down">live</a>" mentally. Indeed, even the science done on this <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-neuroscience-of-your-brain-on-fiction.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">seems to concur</a>. As such, whichever "<a href="http://wigucomics.com/mais/index.php?comic=1">reality</a>" we choose to live in will likely be the one with the best <em>percieved</em> return for the least required effort. Let me put it another way, through the paradigm of video games. Would you rather play "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_&_Teller%27s_Smoke_and_Mirrors">Wait in line at the DMV</a>" or "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Suit_Larry">BonerQuest</a>"? Life under the state seems a lot more like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_no_Ch%C5%8Dsenj%C5%8D">Takeshi no Chosenjo</a> than anything you'd actually <em>want</em> to play.</p>
<p>It should come as no surprise that <a href="http://www.theesa.com/facts/pdfs/VideoGames21stCentury_2010.pdf">more money went towards buying video games in 2010</a> (US Only) than <a href="https://secure.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/13/obama-fundraising-2012-dnc_n_896813.html">was sent to the DNC for the purpose of getting the Magic Negro reelected</a> in 2012 - a difference of over <em>10 Billion</em> Dollars. I suspect there were more gamers than <a href="http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/results/main">voters</a> this year too, but to my knowledge, that appears to be an unconfirmed suspicion without any good statistical evidence gathered at this point. Certainly if you just switch over to <a href="http://www.internetworldstats.com/top20.htm">internet</a> or <a href="http://www.worldtvpc.com/blog/tv-viewing-figures-reach-all-time-high/">TV users</a> as your pool, you beat it easily. It is common knowledge by this point that Internet and TV fulfill much the same purpose as video games to the average user anyways, so this certainly isn't just comparing apples to oranges.</p>
<p>Society is necessarily going to be a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivWY9wn5ps">mirror</a> of the people, so next time you get the urge to castigate some youngun' for playing video games, listening to devil music or <a href="http://www.freedomfeens.com/glossary-for-freedom-feens/">snorting krokodil off the ass of a tranny hooker</a>, think about the society that <a href="https://encyclopediadramatica.se/You"><em>you</em></a> helped to <a href="http://freedomfeens.com/blog/2012/12/15/school-shootings-i-blame-the-state/">create</a> before sitting back down to <a href="https://gawker.com/5610255/confirmed-only-old-people-watch-tv">watch Fox News</a>.</p>
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