As a general topic, what is one thing ye subjects of BritGAF feel strongly about that isn't video games?
Damn. I can get so very passionate about so many things.
Whilst I totally love them and the community around them, Video Games aren't the thing I care the most about.
I spend an awful lot of my mind's time thinking about Societal and Political issues, because I believe they are far more important that any individuals; since a single person is nothing without those people that surround them. I often try to visualise society in some way, and, whilst I used to think of a network with individual, distinct nodes to represent each person, I think that the best I've come up with is some sort of an incredibly complex Venn Diagram, with circles representing the metaphysical (for want of a better word) representation of an individual personality, all overlapping to represent relationships and the fact that we are not so much complete individuals as unique collections of ideas, beliefs, behaviours etc which we pick up from each other...
This is why I also think about Education and Learning a lot... because so much of what makes us ourselves is learned, rather than innate... which makes the formative experiences during our childhood so incredibly important to what sorts of people we will become, and ultimately what sort of a society we will form together.
I can certainly get very passionate during discussions of welfare, benefits, healthcare etc... Largely based on my belief in the importance of a mutually supportive and co-operative society, informed by the ideas I expressed above, rather than a Neo-Liberal, Thatcher-style individualistic, every-man-for-himself society based on ruthless competition.
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Sorry. Possibly not the best platform for my ramblings... I just don't get that many opportunities to express this stuff. (though, my interpretation of this as an opportunity in that sense might be considered a loose one at best.)
