Ever read a book, watched a movie, or played a video game that you love the universe/world so much that you want to move there and live there forever?
Star Trek. I want to live in a post-scarcity society with incredible technology.
The Culture is objectively the safer answer. Living in Star Trek feels like it carries a fairly significant daily risk of being assimilated / used in a Romulan plot / sucked into some weird negative space wedgie / having a console explode in your face for no good reason.
Meanwhile, if you’re in the Culture, you’ve pretty well got it made.
How about the Simpsons? A fictitious America where a man can own a house and provide for his family with one job.
Not fictitious. That’s how it was in the late 80’s before the full aftereffects of reaganomics kicked in.
Hyrule, preferably the version from Breath of the Wild. I mean, yes there is the whole Ganon thing and one shouldn’t go too close to the castle, but the rest of the kingdom is pretty chill, and apparently you can make an easy living by just lazy foraging in the countryside, or by selling a handful of acorns and bugs at random stables, or by growing a grand total of eight pumpkins.
I’ll take a life as a homeless but well-fed drifter on horseback anytime over … this. gestures vaguely at the current state of the world
The Culture and it isn’t even close.
Pern!
Although the person who picked the Culture is absolutely on to something.
