How Moral-Authority Religions Built The Template For A Video-Game Creator's Geed/Lies/Sabotage-Based Business Model.

There are two types of innovators:
The Thomas Edison type.
And the Nikola Tesla type.

Chris Roberts is the Edison type.
So he's not concerned with other people's interests.
It's all about finding innovative ways to farm the masses.

There will always be philosophers who wrestle with the deep complexities of the human experience, especially as it relates to morality, ethics, and purpose.

But "out here"?
Most people aren't so deep.

Most people "intuit" their way through those issues.

For some, those intuitions lead easily into inclusive, cooperative, and equitable personal views and values.

We call these people:
* "progressives" or "leftists".

These people exist on a spectrum.

I personally don't count capital-L "Liberals" as part of that spectrum.

Capital-L "Liberals" are the genetic offspring of hyper-Conservatives. Actual-progressives have been duped into cuck-raising them as our own.

This has caused capital-L Liberals to mistakenly identify as part of the left/progressive cultural meta family.

It has also caused the actual-progressives to keep feeling like we need to make excuses for the extreme emotional dysregulation, social violence, opposite-version-bigotries, and fascist tendencies that capital-L liberals' "SJW" culture inherited from their true progenitors.
[ pro·gen·i·tor 

1. a person or thing from which a person, animal, or plant is descended or originates; an ancestor or parent.]
   
   

This is why humanity's political spectrum is a circle.

If you go far enough "left", you end up in a metaphysical space which manifests as a bizarro-world, carbon-copy of MAGA; except exceeding whiney, due to their lack of power and not understanding why they're stuck at the bottom.

Worse yet, being stuck in perpetual "Flight, Flight, or Fawn" mode ...
has severely disabled the majority of those at the bottom.

This worsens emotional regulation and further impedes rationality.
This is why many Liberal "Social Justice Warriors" are more "tone deaf" regarding social ethics than their less-traumatized supporters. 

This is (partly) why most capital-L Liberals reason and behave opposite to their own virtue-signaled ideals.

When it comes to extremists, their "moral intuitions" lead easily away from their own humanity.

They develop personalities that are exclusive, competitive, and inequitable.

These people also exist on a spectrum, with the most extreme end of that spectrum being:
* religious fundamentalists,
* hyper-conservatives,
and
* culture-warriors.

The primary cause for people to think and behave as they do?

Biology.

When it comes to hyper-conservatism, we're talking about biological causes of fear and greed; instincts which manifest in urges to dominate, control, and exploit.

These are rationalized and glamorized by people at the resource-hording top of our world's pyramids of power.

I think one of the best movie/cinema expressions of that class-warfaring, elitist cultural narrative is the scene in a Spider-Man movie where the Green Goblin tries to convince Spider-Man to join him.
He said, "Here's the real truth. There are eight million people in this city, and those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.".

Roberts is, effectively, the darker version of a "moral anti-realist".

The dark version of that also eshews ethics.
But this comes naturally to many.
This is due, in part, to:
*an enlarged amygdala,
* a different ratio of grey and white matter,
*an underdeveloped right segment of their brain's supramarginal gyrus,
and
*a sociopolitical culture that emerged and solidified specifically due to those factors of biology.

This is also what caused, spread, and perpetuated old-school versions of Christianity, Islam, etc..

For the sake of clarity on these issues, it helps to understand that moral-authoritarian religions are all a form of politics, with a fantasy premise.
They all express an ambition to dominate, control, and extract resources (disproportionately) from the masses.
They all have lists of entire people groups they'd like to see demonized, dominated, and destroyed.

In the "Star Citizen" universe, this is the essential role of their forced-PVP system. 
They are, in effect, emulating the real-world psychopaths' desire to force peaceful people into perpetual fear of violence "for their own good". 

It's a standard facet of hyper-conservative psychology. 

But it also has a purpose. Because when peaceful citizens are afraid and/or angry, they become more deeply invested in the system, because both SAFETY and REVENGE require POWER.

And in that world, POWER is for sale
... at a premium. 


They all have profoundly destructive concepts of an idealized system of power; -a system built to cater to the baser nature we've inherited from our genetic ties to that kingdom. 


A deeply problematic relationship between biology and culture is the root cause of *why the world burns*.
But this is not a "chicken or the egg" dilemma.
Biology comes first.

This is why brain morphology is 70% predictive of what a child's political views will be once they reach adulthood.
This, then, also factors into what someone's relationship will be to money.

The bright version of moral-antirealists embarrasses ethics as meaningful and essential, despite realizing how subjective, cultural, and emotion-driven "morality" is.
But "Star Citizen's" game-market-opportunist CEO is not among them. 

[op·por·tun·ist 

noun

1. a person who exploits circumstances to gain immediate advantage rather than being guided by consistent principles or plans.]
   
   
   

Roberts is a virtual whale farmer.

The faster he moves towards a completed virtual product, the sooner he loses access to this level of income.

He sabotages his own system
for the same reasons that religious conservatives sabotage ours. 

It's much more profitable to sell a dream than it is to sell a materialized reality.
The most profitable dream? The promise of that reality is a world where anyone can earn everything in-game, and then nothing gets "wiped" after that.

But you can't sell "escape" from a journey that people are satisfied with.

Thus, it behooves such people to create problems,  to ensure they'll always have a market of people paying desperately for a quality of life that never fully manifests.
 
It's the same with national politics.

It's the same as religion's promise of "heaven"; a world where everyone has ample access to everything they desire, and nothing (and nobody) ever again gets deleted.

They're cashing in on the promise of a dream world that will never manifest in reality.
 And they realize it.

They'll keep making sure it never manifests in reality.

They'll keep sabotaging the systems they control, so they can keep selling:
 The false promises of a dream;
which will always pay better than any reality they could forge. 

Game-breaking flaws in the system are "a feature, not a bug".
They are used to JUSTIFY the *unfortunate reality* that those in power need more time before they can deliver on their grand promises.

If a "God" showed up and *put it to a vote* that he could deliver a "promised" world today, ...

The most ambitious *fishers of men* would say, "No, Lord. Let's wait a while longer. There is still more work to do". -Because in a world where everyone is at least "ok", and most are better-than-OK, ... "special people" would have to settle for being the same. So they FEIGN incompetence, as they keep breaking the systems they wield power over, to justify perpetuating the problems they are paid to solve, so they can keep delaying the development of a "better world" where they wouldn't be so grossly advantaged.