I couldn’t agree more. But for what it’s worth I think there are people who are angry and motivated and willing to take it to the bastards. Every era also has its folk heroes. Is it enough? Maybe not. Maybe the added element of cooking ourselves has tipped the scales into an unrecoverable tailspin, but at least there will always be people who will never stop trying to pull us out of the dive. Even as the challenger broke up as it re entered the atmosphere based on the position of certain controls they could tell that the pilot never stopped trying to recover the aircraft even as it broke up around him.
I’m about to crack what is probably the halfway point of my life, adjusted for delicious plastic intake and the inevitable 6 cancers I’ll develop of course, but I won’t stop fighting to try and make the world slightly less shit and slightly more hospitable for the youth who will follow behind me once I eventually eat shit.
The thing is, there are people who do the right thing solely because they can and you can’t convince them to do otherwise. It’s a choice and any person can make it. And so long as those people exist, there’s always going to be someone willing to at least try to stomp this bullshit out.
In the game heavy rain you enter a building and this pleasant old man is there. He’s very nice, talks to you casually about what brought you there. Offers you a drink. You get to click through all these options and it’s rather boring. Only as you wander the room and talk to him it just starts to not add up. He’s saying odd things. Keeps insisting you have some more tea.
From the second you enter the room a timer gets set. The player has to be smart enough to realize the guy is sketch and leave on their own. If you drink the tea you will eventually get knocked out or if you don’t drink the tea but stay he eventually surprises you and knocks you out . Either way you wake up in his torture chamber and have to fight for your life to escape.
Always loved that part.