We’re all in the gaming industry. We’re NPCs and we don’t know it. I was gamed by religion and then patriotism. But these days I’m being gamed by Haagen Dazs and it definitely feels much better. My doctor thinks I need to exercise. But what does he know? He’s an NPC.
I think you’re referring to the Party of Lincoln. Sadly, they were progressive when they first came to be. And then Dick Nix came along and recruited angry Southern Dems who loved Jim Crowe. They’ve been tilting hard to starboard ever since. I also think it’s ironic that the Puritans who were anti-slave are also the same people who loved Prohibition. Today they are called Evangelicals. These guys have a knack for picking the wrong name for their movements. Or maybe they just don’t know the difference between fear and love. Or, worse yet, they don’t care. “It’s just a thought.”
Thinning the herd. In Alaska, the apex predator, according to death by wildlife statistics, is the…moose. They kill more people than Grizzly, Brown, Black, Kodiak, & Polar bears combined. https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Dangerous_animals#:~:text=More%20people%20are%20killed%20by,than%20bears%20and%20wolves%20combined.
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