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Grouped Beliefs

“Game, game, game and again game” has thirteen levels and discusses society. The author has a negative view of society that is aided by the music and drawings.
The title page says “game, game, game and again game or belief systems are small clumsy rolling-type creatures.” Most of the titles of the levels are in this format; they have one title and then say “or” and give another title. The second section of the title tell us something about what the author thinks about the first part. Examples will be provided later. “…or belief systems are small clumsy rolling-type creatures,” tell us something about the game and what the author thinks about belief systems. While playing the game, if you hit a small rolling-type creature you die and have to start the level again. Therefore, he thinks belief systems are dumb and why our society will fail.
The first level, titled “the fundamentalist or obsessively charmed by the sun.” The author thinks fundamentalists are just people who are overly charmed by the sun. Level two, “the faithful or symbols clang the loudest in pre-school,” discusses religious people and how religion is especially enforced at a young age. One interesting thing about this level is that along the bottom it says “oxygen is regional.” I’m not sure what this is supposed to mean, but maybe that religious beliefs are concentrated regionally.
“The real estate agent or location is fraud and views are hollow” discusses the importance of property in our society. Something that I found in one of my run-throughs of the game was, if you hit a particular thing, the words “you will never be debtless” pop up. I think the author is saying that no matter how much money and property you have, because of the burdens of our society, you will always have debt. I’m not totally sure, but I didn’t get these words every game, so they intrigued me.
The author gives his opinion on Buddhists (level six) and tourists (level seven). Level eight is about capitalists, and the second part of the title is “self-actualization through purchase.” An interesting aspect of this level is that, when you go down the right side of the steps, an arrow points to the top and says “wealthy,” along the side the words “you purpose of owning” over and over, and at the bottom, at arrow points and says balance. Our balance comes from our roots and our base. I think the author is also trying to say that we might not have a real purpose of owning except to be wealthy. Without wealth and a purpose to own, we would still have balance.
The next three levels talk about chemists, the life coaches and the collection officers. The tenth level is the hell one, which is titled, “some confusing type of hell built from messy lines.” In this level, the left and right arrow keys do not actually take you to the left and right; they take you diagonally. In order to pass this level, one has to go off the page and come back at the top at least that was the only way I could do it.
“The scientist or success is a bored brief period” has a meaningful title because the author is saying that scientific developments do not really matter. The next level the author discusses cars and the 12.5 level is “the partial end or what only seems to be empty.
The last level is very pessimistic about the purpose of life. It says across the screen “life is really the end,” which is just kind of depressing. On this level it also says “belief is only/ belief is not/ win, win, win.” I’m not sure what the author intended by this, but it relates the opening title page to the last level because it talks about belief and how belief is not good for society. I think he’s trying to say that belief is only nothing. Belief doesn’t really matter, but we, as a people, have made it matter. Each of the levels in this game is a different belief system that he is against just because it divides us into belief sets. We have made groups of beliefs and we divide o

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