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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 7511557" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>This is the part I find particularly suspect. Certainly the culture and environment you live in, will influence content. That doesn't mean people can deduce your political views just because there is a vague influence. Just because a GM includes a few elements that harken to real-world philosophies, that in no way gives me an indication of what the GM actually believes about them. The GM could be engaging in a deliberate thought exercise without really having any interest or investment in any of them. It is also very easy to misread a person's politics just judging by that kind of content. And I think it is extremely misguided to assume you can know their politics by trying to assess it based on the culture and environment they come out of. I watch and read a lot of stuff from sources outside my own culture. I think it is a big mistake to overplay the influence of that culture and not treat a given writer as an individual with their own views (and influences from outside sources). Sure they are a product of the culture but they are also an individual within it as well. I think in this conversation we are starting to reduce people to the paradigm they exist inside of. And I don't think I really see the point. I mean, yes, your culture has an influence. But why does it having an influence matter, if it isn't central or important to the work? Just because believe in X, it doesn't mean X is always this pervading thing any time I express myself. And just because I belong to a culture that believes X, it doesn't mean any time I handle X in a creative work that I am using it in the same way as the broader culture, or that I have any particular feeling at all about it. You can spend so much time focusing on X you miss that I am actually talking about Y. People are mistaking content for message it seems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 7511557, member: 85555"] This is the part I find particularly suspect. Certainly the culture and environment you live in, will influence content. That doesn't mean people can deduce your political views just because there is a vague influence. Just because a GM includes a few elements that harken to real-world philosophies, that in no way gives me an indication of what the GM actually believes about them. The GM could be engaging in a deliberate thought exercise without really having any interest or investment in any of them. It is also very easy to misread a person's politics just judging by that kind of content. And I think it is extremely misguided to assume you can know their politics by trying to assess it based on the culture and environment they come out of. I watch and read a lot of stuff from sources outside my own culture. I think it is a big mistake to overplay the influence of that culture and not treat a given writer as an individual with their own views (and influences from outside sources). Sure they are a product of the culture but they are also an individual within it as well. I think in this conversation we are starting to reduce people to the paradigm they exist inside of. And I don't think I really see the point. I mean, yes, your culture has an influence. But why does it having an influence matter, if it isn't central or important to the work? Just because believe in X, it doesn't mean X is always this pervading thing any time I express myself. And just because I belong to a culture that believes X, it doesn't mean any time I handle X in a creative work that I am using it in the same way as the broader culture, or that I have any particular feeling at all about it. You can spend so much time focusing on X you miss that I am actually talking about Y. People are mistaking content for message it seems. [/QUOTE]
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