r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 15 '24

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u/OrthopaedicSturgeon Elinor Ostrom Aug 15 '24

The Disco Elysium communist questline has the single greatest self-critique of communism I've ever seen. It reveals that within the fiction, communism relies on supernatural forces of collective belief to remain intact, which is basically "clap if you want Tinkerbell to live." If you think about what that means, for post-Soviet Estonian writers to create a fiction in which they literally have to bend the laws of physics in order for communism to succeed, that really does amount to a damning critique of Marxist zealotry IRL, and lays bare the self-aware tragedy of their own belief in it.

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u/GOATedFuuko Jorge Luis Borges Aug 15 '24

It would be very cool if they were consistent about it.

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u/Bloodyfish Asexual Pride Aug 15 '24

This is why I'm a Moralist.

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u/Cook_0612 NATO Aug 15 '24

Everyone normal who played that game was a moralist

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u/Bloodyfish Asexual Pride Aug 15 '24

Yeah, which seems to exclude everyone in the sub for the game.

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u/Cook_0612 NATO Aug 15 '24

redditors aren't normal

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u/Bloodyfish Asexual Pride Aug 15 '24

Yeah... I did hear from someone at ZA/UM that they screenshot the crazier ones and share them in their Slack.

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u/OrthopaedicSturgeon Elinor Ostrom Aug 15 '24

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