This World is Not New
Asterios C
The New World is getting old. Old people are notoriously grumpy. So I expect the bickering to crank up even more and suffocatingly overflow the channels. Nothing will ever be as good as their glorious days of youth. Bit by bit, everything will shrivel down to become more of a painful shadow of its former grandeur. A glazed stare will settle over eyes tired of reading the same kind of posts by the same people. They’ll keep posting their own crop of medals though, because why not?
A profound feeling of living through Groundhog Day will emanate from the chasms of funhaving past, as each next day will play out identical to the one before. No one will go out of their way to try different game styles, since you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. They’ll just sigh in memory of back when there were true captains of industry, politics mattered and war was honorable. International affairs will stagnate into sisyphean repetition, as communities dwindle down to monolithic personas that follow the exact same agenda, photocopied and distributed under stern instruction by habit and convenience.
But there is another annoying thing old people are known for: they stubbornly refuse to die. Whatever their current predicament, they cling to dear life by any means possible. I’m utterly convinced there’ll be plenty of old-timers around for the 5.000 Days milestone as well. And they’ll probably be the ones that kept coming back throughout the years. Genuine electronic Methuselahs. The ones that were hooked on early or the ones that paid an actual fortune to see their accounts thrive. They’ll grind and grind and bot whatever can be botted. Then they’ll grind some more with nerve-racking precision that only long accumulated experience can muster.
One thousand more days can certainly bring a whole lot of new thrills and excitement. But we can't have that. That would subvert our routines. And routines are important. We cannot do anything that would mess with them. It’s almost sacrilegious if we do. So we don’t. We simply keep on clicking as long as there are buttons to click. We let our veteran reflections guide us onwards. This is no ominous forecast. This is diehard optimism. No New World can stay new forever. We’ve figured that out by know. The thing is, New Worlds are fun and all, but time-worn Worlds is where we make our stand.
This article is written as a submission to the Day 4000 Media Contest, Category 1: ‘Best Forecast for Next 1000 Days’ by the Plato Foundation
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Very good article!!
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That's an awesome read bro good luck with the contest..
Thanks. Do write something yourself, if you can. They say they won't deliver on the promised rewards if there are not enough participants and that would be a pity. It's only 200 words. 😉
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Dystopian flavor. Love the way you write. Good luck in the competition!
Is it dystopian, now? Peculiar. Maybe it transfers over from the novella I'm currently writing. Or maybe it's the other way round and eRepublik is a part of what inspired me to write in the first place.
Again, as with Pickl3z above: please, do try to write and enter the competition yourself.
It's what I felt while reading it. 🙂 Not sure if I'm gonna write, but best of luck to you.
Thanks once again. It saddens me that people are so reluctant to put 200 words together. I hope it's eRep and not some general iRL trend. 🙁
I will probably participate in other categories. You shouldn't worry, though. "In the unlikely event that there are not enough participants or that no article submitted in a category deserves one of the prizes" - even if there is just your article, it is good enough to win the prize 😃
That quote there says that if not enough people write, they may not give all the rewards they promised. But it's not securing the rewards are actually given out I'm anxious about. It's getting people to write. We need good articles in here. It's the only thing bots can't do. 😉
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