During thanksgiving break, I watched recently released series called Westworld. I highly recommend watching it. It may seem weird and odd, but this series had me hooked. It kept me watching because interestingly enough, it had incorporated views similar to Rousseau which we just read. This series is about a robotic theme park that has been funded for the soul purpose of the rich to relive the past in the wild west. (Spoiler alert skip the rest of this paragraph if you don't want to know much about the series) As you watch the series you learn that the theme park developers strive to increase their progress on the robots to make them truly alive. During these developments, there are constant arguments between the developers and managers of the company whether to keep the robots basic or highly realistic. In the end, the robots are developed to be so realistic, that they leave the park in ruins. This ties to Rousseau's Basic Political Writing, because in his first discourse explained in the introduction of political paradoxes by David Wootton that “progress is a bad thing because it is morally corrupting". The progression of the robots morally corrupt the developers into making them independent and causing the destruction of the park. After watching this, I also see that other movies link to Rousseau such as IRobot, and the terminator. Both of these movies are about humans progressing in technology and developing A.I.(artificial intelligence) which turns against humanity causing regression. These are just some of the many movies and television series today that relate with Rousseau's paradox, that progress leads to regress.
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Empires and ruins are still being formed and analyzed technologically today through video games. The developer known as FromSoftware has created a game called Dark Souls. This game series has contributed to a unique genre where the developers do not spoon feed the game's plot/story. This means that players are forced to interpret the story based on what is presented to them by the developers. Throughout the game players traverse various landscapes that consist of empires and ruins. In these landscapes, players are compelled to figure out the mystery of the story's background as they continue their journey in the game. As more and more players complete the game over the years, players have posted their view of the games story and continue to analyze the hidden messages within the game's series to figure what happens to empires.
These are just a few of the videos that people have developed to share their beliefs of the true story.
Dark Souls is just one of the many games that developers today have made for players to interpret their empire and its ruins.
With Virgil writing the Aeneid, his vision of a Virgilian Hero still lives on. To this day we can see that people on both sides of the world display Virgilian Hero traits in their stories keeping the standards as an epic hero very high.
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