Thursday, October 18, 2012
The Rich vs. My Sims
Rich people scare me. I suppose the incomprehensible wealth of the extremely rich frightens a lot of people for many social and political reasons and for what the existence of such crazy wealth says about the world we live in. But rich people scare me because they are rich enough to create houses that are nicer than those I can create for my Sims (with cheats of course). Essentially what this means is that there are people out there who's riches exceed my imaginative power. Imagination is the process on mental creation, and there are people who's material creations are greater than that which I can create in the all-encompasing field of my imagination, which best manifests itself in terms of this discussion on the Sims. I am not even talking Sims 1, this is beyond Sims 3 wealth. These people can afford the nice furniture and the most expensive stone walls that Sims players develop carpal tunnel to get. And these men, women and small children do not have to live vicariously through gibberish-speaking virtual people. They buy the most expensive couches offered, and then they use their own real butts to sit on them! It saddens me. I could buy the biggest Sim plot of land, build the wackest tiered Sim house with a swimming pool on every level and choose the best Sim decor- greater than anything I will ever possess in my life- and have the finest bathroom in all the Sim land, and these people have real houses that are infinitely better than that. The most treacherous part is that they have real life things that I can't even imagine. I can't really describe them because they exceed my imaginative realm.
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