3/14 Personal reflection (Plato)

Since we are soon to start reading Plato's Republic (Joy!), Mr. Jana has assigned this small personal reflection:

Recall a time that you heard a statement of “fact” that was later found to be untrue. It can be from a parent, a teacher, a friend, a government official, a book, or a film. How did you find out it was untrue and how did it make you feel? Did it change your outlook on anything?

Well, in honor of the Republic, (Especially my all-time favorite, the Allegory of the Cave), as well as my return to the allegorithm known as Gamer Theory (Very good bit of reading, I highly recommends it. Especially if you're NOT a gamer), I shall share with ye all a story that I think relates to both of these philosophical pieces:

Some time ago, I was browsing Digg.com (A site where people share fun links they found), and I discovered a link to a supposed way to beta test one of Google's new features, Google TV. Of course, I had to try it. They even had a seemingly legit video, so I thought it must be true. I attempted and attempted it a hundred times over to no avail. I did some research on it, and it seems many experts agreed: It was a hoax. A fraud. Fake. Of course, this angered me, since I just wasted a few hours of my time for nothing, and it also made me realize something else:

It's amazing. In cyberspace, anything and everything is logical, everything is possible. Especially something like Google TV, something that brings the world closer to a "Topological Plane," as McKenzie Wark so puts it in Gamer Theory. Everything, connected. "The node may be a center, but there may not really be a center of centers. ...Every point connects through every other, every shape can be transformed into another. It can fold, stretch, morph and bubble. Time is constant, but space is not. It can pulse and bulge, warp and wobble. It is a network." How can one say no to that?

And yet...it's not real. Just a shadow on the wall. It's strange. In the real world, the line between reality and fiction is definite. But, in cyberspace, anything is possible, because everything is but a shadow. If that is so, can it even be considered real?

Finally, I learned that time wasted is time that cannot be regained. "Time is violence."

END OF LINE. Now, as always, here's the latest going ons with Clan Darkterror Productions: First and foremost, WE FINALLY GOT THE DEMO UP. REVEL IN IT'S GLORY. Once you are done enjoying that, be a pal and Help us finish the whole game, so that you may enjoy it too!(Better do it fast, though, because the main characters are being taken up rather quick! If you wait too long, you might end up as one of the generic NPCs!) And while your at it, see what we're up to At the new Eternity's End devlog!