Regarding the Diablo controversy. What we have here isn't 'entitled gamers' (and when you pay for a product, you're entitled to your money's worth anyway) but a deep loss of trust and respect between gamers, media and developers.
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I'd go even further tha that and say that "entitlement" really is just the Russell conjugation of, well, having standards, needs and desires. In other words, they're vilifying people for being human.
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It's very telling how these puritanical "progressives" who behave more like the religious "right" have also appropriated elements of the "right's" language, such as "entitlement" to mean self-entitled, which was originally used by right-wingers to dismiss welfare recipients.
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I wasn't aware of that specific example, but yes their arguments tend to be very similar: spooky brainwashing by media&entertainment, words and art constituting "harm", "protect the children/wammen!", etc. I suspect it comes down to the wiring of the brain, and how outrage...
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... as an emotion is tied to disgust (of excrement, rot, filth, bodily fluids) as a gut reaction.
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Yeah, I think this is tied deep to an aspect of human psychology that deals with enforcing morality, shaming others and such. It used to be that people with that type of moralistic tendency were in the religious right, now they're in the Intersectional left.
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Probably cuz the main source of morality at least in the Western world used to be Christianity (the Religious Right), and now it's "anti-bigotry", which has been taken over by Intersectional Feminism.
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I realise I wasn't quite clear in my earlier tweet, but I think it goes back way further than that. I think outrage is an *extremely* primitive tool of enforcing social cohesion, likely predating organised religion by thousands of years if not more.
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IMO that is why outrage is often fuelled by irrational leaps of logic, like the magical thinking involved in blaming [cultural phenomenon] for [bad thing]. It's scapegoating (and in the past this was done quite literally).
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God forbid you have expectations for something you pay for.
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Exactly. Businesses exist to provide goods and services to fulfil needs. They go out of their way to convince consumers that they are in fact lacking something in their lives. The (often explicit) expectation is that the good or service fulfils that need.
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But of course, e-commies not getting capitalism is nothing new so what was I expecting. (._. )
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