[HN Gopher] The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat SIM City (2010)
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       The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat SIM City (2010)
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 47 points
       Date   : 2025-05-02 10:46 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
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       | voihannena wrote:
       | In case the youtube embedding doesn't work, here's the original
       | video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTJQTc-TqpU
        
       | echelon_musk wrote:
       | > Are you a practicing Buddhist?
       | 
       | > Former Buddhist.
        
         | kgwxd wrote:
         | No, I'm not a practicing Buddhist. I've perfected it.
        
         | asimovfan wrote:
         | Former buddhist = didn't get it
        
       | MrGinkgo wrote:
       | filmmaker John Wilson (host of the HBO Show how to with John
       | Wilson) made a documentary inspired by Magnasanti:
       | https://vimeo.com/238073511
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Discussed at the time:
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       |  _The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat Sim City_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1352864 - May 2010 (43
       | comments)
        
       | hnpolicestate wrote:
       | The 5 minute city.
        
       | jimkleiber wrote:
       | One of the YouTube comments led me to the VICE interview with the
       | creator, Vincent Ocasla: https://www.vice.com/en/article/q-a-
       | vincent-ocasla-the-22-ye...
       | 
       | > There are a lot of other problems in the city hidden under the
       | illusion of order and greatness: Suffocating air pollution, high
       | unemployment, no fire stations, schools, or hospitals, a
       | regimented lifestyle - this is the price that these sims pay for
       | living in the city with the highest population. It's a sick and
       | twisted goal to strive towards. The ironic thing about it is the
       | sims in Magnasanti tolerate it. They don't rebel, or cause
       | revolutions and social chaos. No one considers challenging the
       | system by physical means since a hyper-efficient police state
       | keeps them in line. They have all been successfully dumbed down,
       | sickened with poor health, enslaved and mind-controlled just
       | enough to keep this system going for thousands of years. 50,000
       | years to be exact. They are all imprisoned in space and time.
        
         | CGMthrowaway wrote:
         | One of the yt comments led you back to OP's submitted article?
        
           | jimkleiber wrote:
           | Lol, wow, just goes to show that I tend to read the comments
           | more than the article. Caught red-handed and face-palmed.
           | 
           | On the bright side, I included the paragraph that I found
           | most enlightening (or endarkening?)
           | 
           | Thank you for letting me know :-/
        
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