[FUPQ-16] Learn from friends in other countries
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by Pfenix Quinn
The Free University of Phoenix Quinn is a service of the Socialist Freedom Party, a far-left boat-load of vagabonds, ne'er-do-wells, mystics, drunkards, poets and off-duty soldiers and sailors who have washed up on the shores of e-Merka and are trying to do good fun stuff for each other and their friends.
This is Lecture Number 16 of a 20-part series on Combating Tyranny. It's loosely based on Timothy Snyder's NY Times bestseller ON TYRANNY, adapted to our New World situation by yours truly, R.F. Williams, the e-world's greatest Phoenix Quinn fan and the humblest doyen ever to direct the PQ Chair in Philosophikal Bloviation at the FUPQ.
Para traducir este lío es más dificil que cagar en un frasquito, pero podéis encontrar unos traducciones al español de estas conferencias en VANGUARDIA SOCIALISTA.
Learn from friends in other countries.
Make and keep friendships abroad. Especially here in eRepublik, where it is so easy to do, make new friends in other countries. Difficulties with authoritatian schmucks in your home country are just an element of a larger human trend. No country will completely solve the problem on its own.
In real life, making sure you and your family have passports is always a good precaution. In game, get some moving tickets and use them. Read the press from other e-countries, not just your own. Google Translator is your friend.
Light-weight journalists in countries with a democratic tradition can seldom accurately predict the rise of a strongman. The candidates for Il Duce may seem too absurd to take seriously, and the media mavens may be too far gone into being entertainers rather than journalists to see it.
Observers in other countries may see things more clearly. Honest journalists from countries with an authoritarian tradition may report things in a more realistic fashion than some whose careers have been built on simply barfing up jejune nostrums about the way things are.
If one is not accustomed to dealing with it, an inability to quickly detect cyberwar and fake news may seem comical to those who have been honed to react immediately, decisively and humorously to such campaigns, and are accustomed to exposing such disinformation as soon as it raises its sinister head.
Repeating and spreading disinformation is doing the work of the cyberwarriors. Don't be a sucker. Don't fall for it.
Not having a passport has a negative effect on democracy. While you might prefer to die defending freedom at home, such fine words and lofty sentiments miss a key point. Which is: the fight will be a long one.
Sacrifice may be needed, yes, but even more so the struggle against fascism and neo-fascism demands sustained attention to the world around us, so that we know what is being resisted, and how best to do so. Having a passport is not a sign of surrender. On the contrary, it is liberating.
It creates the possibility of new experiences.
It opens the door to seeing how other people, sometimes wiser than we, react to similar problems.
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At the end of this lecture series, most excellent honorariums and dignified titles will be awarded by Comrade-Professor Williams based on responses provided in the comment sections. Participation counts. Indicate attendance by leaving a comment or endorsing the article. Higher honors will be awarded according to the degree of critical thinking, mindfulness and humor exhibited by responders.
Examples of questions you could touch on in response to this lecture, while packing for your overseas trip:
* What can a player learn by observing how players in other countries play the game?
* Are there real life lessons to be learned by becoming an emigrant in eRepublik?
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Examples of questions you could touch on in response to this lecture, while packing for your overseas trip:
* What can a player learn by observing how players in other countries play the game?
* Are there real life lessons to be learned by becoming an emigrant in eRepublik?
Great question there RF.
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What i have learned in real life is that interaction with people from foreign nations learned me to understand my own culture and my nation. The same works in eRepublik. Listen to people outside your nation and you will get a better insight. Having friends outside your nation will help you to improve your own nation and your account.
I have left my own real life nation in eReplubik long time ago. I didn't want to leave but it wasn't a pleasure at that times to stay, so I left. Now i am happy leaving it. It made me stay in the game and I got so many new and interesting friends. 🙂
Travel in this game is incredibly easy. Understanding those from another culture is quite difficult. That doesn’t mean we should not try.
In RL many of my positions have required me to interact with people from all over the globe and I've always love it. You learn so much, how other people see the world, their culture, and so much more. In a game like eRep it was only natural for me to interact with people all over. Here while many join the eCountry that matches their RL one may others do not. Interacting with people all over the New World is a great was to get perspective on what is really happening with game and seeing various sides to situations.
When I joined the game, I joined in my RL country and my home state - a big mistake in those days of V1. It was getting involved in a group that required me to move to other countries that eventually made the difference in my continuing to play. I was assigned to eBelgium, and I fell in love with the community and stayed. Getting involved with players from other countries opens up whole new ways of understanding both the eWorld and the Real World. In many European countries, English is the primary language used in game, because it is such a polyglot community. Even where it is not, your high school French or Spanish or German can take you a long way, and other players are usually happy to help if Google translate doesn't quite do it for you. You don't have to change citizenship to benefit from eWorld travel, but it helps. Often you can join the national Discord channels and chat with people without even using a moving ticket, but total immersion in the national culture of another country is the best way to really get to know and understand its citizens, and the more we understand one another, the better our world will be.
Yeah, I remember how we met. When the eUnited Netherlands from the alliance PEACE decided to split into eBelgium and eNL. It didn't take long for eBelgium to be 'liberated' by The Group and Seal Team Six (eUSA) from the EDEN alliance. A great opportunity for both sides to meet new people 😉
Some people are willing to be nice just so they throw you under the bus. How do we know who our friends are?