Guys, I would leave wikileaks alone for a good while. There are a lot of real forces working against each others on that field right now, it's playing with fire getting in the fray ourselves too, even if we just want to play an alternate reality game. You are talking national security issues, here, and I don't think we gamers should get involved indirectly through our game. I personally will not support that. It is an inspiring story, for us storytellers, for sure, but there are a lot of legal/ethical issues at play. Theses issues could easily derail the game in the long term. Perhaps from Europe you don't see the gravity and seriousness of the wikileaks events, but here in North America, the matter is more than serious, you don't want to go play around in a mine field, imo.
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:14 PM, david blanchard <[email protected]>wrote: > For example, if we talk about oil companies. In our serious/realistic >> context, if we say that they eat babies for diner without proof, that's >> not ethical. But what if the mission points out their implication in >> destabilizing a country, based for example on wikileaks data? >> > > Here, I would point out the legal risk - we need to be careful about the > way things are done. I don't want to jeopardize the project by being sued by > a big company if we can obtain the same effect by using a fictitious name. > We should I think dig into this subject with a lawyer first. > > > > What I want to do with these games is to generate questions among >>> players, I'm not here to impose any truth of mine. >>> >> >> Hmm, I find this reasoning a bit flawed. The first thing we learn in >> sociology, when we have to conduct interviews, is that the way a >> question is asked greatly influences the answer. >> >> Whether you want it or not, you will push a part of your point of view >> into the game. For me, saying that you will just generate questions >> among players is as hypocritical as the so-called neutrality of >> journalists - the form always conveys meaning. >> > > Yes, I'm aware that any communication has an implicit - if not explicit - > point of view :-) > > I have no doubt that the game will be greatly influenced by our education, > culture, by what each one of us brings with him - that it will be full of > our ideas, beliefs, things we want to convey, etc. > > But while I would never deny this, what I'm saying is that I still do not > want to impose a single view on things to the players (maybe we agree on > that) - maybe just because, for the good or the bad, I am not the bearer of > one ! > > That's personal, but there is no single philosophical, religious or > political paradigm that completely satisfies me in the way I want to look at > and interpretate the world - I'm glad of this multiplicity where I can jump > from one vision to another in order to forge a personal one - work which is > never achieved of course. > > End of the 2 cents personal parenthesis :-), my conclusion being that this > is what I expect from a great game, not something that I can reduce to > propaganda but a multiplicity of ideas/feelings/positionings where my > freewill as a player is respected. > > _______________________________________________ > Farsides mailing list - [email protected] > > Wiki: http://farsides.com/ > List: http://farsides.com/ml/ > Forum: http://farsides.com/forum/ > Ideas: http://farsides.com/ideas/ > Chat: http://farsides.com/chat/ > -- Best, Alex Vachon cartouchecreations.com Follow me on Twitter <http://twitter.com/cartouchefilms> Follow me on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=602172865> Montreal Loves New York Loves Montreal<http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_135269469856078&ap=1> New York - Montreal - Vancouver
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