Sunday, July 19, 2009

Relativistic Environment Principle

I was just thinking...

No matter how awesome of an environment you can think up, if you were born into that environment, you would think it was precisely as interesting as the one you were already in.

That is, while you can read books about space ships or wizards (or wizards flying spaceships...bound to be books like that somewhere) and think, "Cor, that must be a lot more interesting than where I am", if you were born into that setting you'd be just as bored with that as you already are with computers, jet planes and the ability to live in a house that never gets attacked by the Bug Beasts of Zanthorp.

If the universe is infinite, and thus all possibilities exist, then somewhere, someone is, at this very moment, being attacked by ninjas, wishing they could live in a world where they could live a quiet suburban life and perhaps write things into a blog now and then. Or they're watching the sky go from orange to purple and then to a light shade of pink, wishing they could live in a world where things could possibly stay the same for two days in a row without undergoing radical changes.


Perhaps the real issue isn't how much better we can imagine some other place being, but rather, how satisfied we can be with where we already are. Is satisfaction a result of your environment? Would changing the environment increase your satisfaction? Or is satisfaction an internal function and if you changed environments, you would simply bring that same level of satisfaction/dissatisfaction with you?

1 comment:

Just writing... said...

Jamie, I think you and I are sometimes impossible and most of the time difficult. You and I both know that there will always be people who are like that. Satisfication is never permanent, it seemed. There's always going to be people who think too much, analyze too much, and ask too much. Whether it is because they care too much or we care too little is up to debate. I don't doubt for a moment that they want the best there is, and we are only the best that we can.

Taste change, ideas comes and ago, who knows what tomorrow brings....

I am going to pluck my hand with the guitar. Good luck on your games. ^_^

Take care...