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So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.
This same old petty spat, again.
It's always disappointing to me, how quickly and eagerly people to shift gears from trying to create the best society for all towards watching Maury.
Lars Thunderfist invited Ronald Reagan here, not out of confidence in Reagan's ability as a Leader, but out of confidence in Reagan's total commitment to ripping apart any society he cannot be the sole authority of. Reagan has added nothing of value. He has proposed no ideas on how to harness this nations great wealth or better engage with his (apparently) mass of dead silent supporters; only opaquely alluded that he does actually have ideas and he'll tell us what they are after we give him all the money and power.
I am supposed to believe that the ends justify the means.
I am supposed to believe that these 150 new citizens showing up and Molly Emma being President and Liquid_HOMICIDE returning are all great things and portents of a prosperous nation; that all this yelling is but the strain of a man again finding his feet.
Maybe, to someone, this is all worth it.
Maybe it's worth it, to someone, to create a worst society for it's clean, easy definitions and teams to play for, rather than to create a better society in which a person must define themselves, for themselves.
Personally, I think you've all lost your dignity.
I would have been happy to simply let this pass gently in its sleep or wait for someone to breath genuine new life in, But, instead, we breathed in the old life into a paper cut-out of an enemy figure for us to all boo and hiss at; propped up by a mass of supporters who have nothing to say and no changes they'd like to make. We started fighting each other, because one of the 'elite', whom Ronald Reagan is so critical of, invited him here expressly for the purpose to get everyone to fight each other.
All that really amounts to is just another design of how to hold power without having to do anything.
Yet, all these people have done a lot of work to create all these things everyone's fighting over.
This all smells so much of the politics we know in real life; I guess that must be the appeal, the familiar is comforting. Everyone more interested in whose team they're on that what that team wants to do. Everyone too hung up on their disagreements to figure out what they even actually disagree about. Everyone more caught up in how to use the rules as a weapon against others than how to use the rules to do better.
I'm not really sure where I'm going with any of this. Nowhere, I guess; civility and consideration seeming not to be what all the cool kids are doing.
I guess I just want you all to know that you all wanted this and that you're all instrumental in everything being the way it is. Reagan is 'President-in-Exile' because that is what he wants. There were literally a hundred decisions he could have made along the way that would have avoided this stand off, but he didn't because he doesn't have ideas. In-fighting *is* the idea. The old guard won't work with him, because they need an enemy, not another friend. And you all just need a tawdry little dime-store novel to cluck about with your girlfriends after your PTA meetings.
When you closed your eyes to dream, this is the world you made.
You argue characters and the internal logic of the dream, but it's all irrelevant.
Everything you see is what is reflected in your heart.
All that said....
I don't care much to watch you rip yourself apart for entertainment value, though, so someone please let me know when something important happens.
Love,
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USA as a world power? In E-Sim it is possible!
In E-Sim we have a huge, living world, which is a mirror copy of the Earth. Well, maybe not completely mirrored, because the balance of power in this virtual world looks a bit different than in real life. In E-Sim, USA does not have to be a world superpower, It can be efficiently managed as a much smaller country that has entrepreneurial citizens that support it's foundation. Everything depends on the players themselves and how they decide to shape the political map of the game.
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