You know, that's a world that will come if we go on the way we are heading. You know, without the crushing weight of the excessiveness of human population we have today. When what we think we know now has proven how wrong it has been, and we're faced with the realities we've been denying ourselves, not just the challanges, but what game designers, basing on familiar assumptions often over look, or don't even imagine, the opportuniites, the diverse abundance of oppertunities, to get right, or at least a lot closer to it.

not the mad max moment, which is all well and entertaining for games, but the moment AFTER that moment, when the tiny fraction of sapience that remains, are creatively inventing their own social structures, unconstrained by assumptions that are prevalent now, mostly because existing interests want the to be. that moment when they've pretty much killed each other off. The car is no longer practical, no one is pumping oil or mining coal, nature is reclaiming everything, and those who know and respect the land, and understand how it works, are going to out survive those who think they will by taking by force what they want. but that's not the aspect that interests me.

not that there won't be some, but of course games exagerate and emphisise that aspect of it.

its that moment though, after the end and before the beginning, when the opportunity is there, to begin the rebuilding in a wiser way that avoids the causes of the end we're currently inflicting on ourselves by the unwisdom of our priorities, that always absolutely fascinates me.

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