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?
The movie from studio Ghibli Whisper of the Heart is so beautiful I wish I can live there :(
Ghibli studio man…
One of the only happy tears that happened in my life is probably when I watched Howl’s Moving Castle. The sound track, the beautiful animation… I just can’t
Roshar!
Do they actually value life? Most of it is feudal which means most individuals don’t have great lives.
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.
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.
Hobbington