I Hate Ubisoft

Aristotle believed that people who buy something would own it, unlike a certain game company, which seems to think I don’t own the game I paid 80 dollars for. I’m just kidding. I would never buy the new Assassin’s Creed game because they’re bad, but owning things is a deeply debated concept. For instance, what does it mean to own something?

Do you own your house just because your name is on the deed, or the land for that same reason? If you stop paying for them, they can always be taken away, and then somebody else “owns them.” Now you might be thinking, well, even if I don’t own the materialistic things, I still own myself, as disgustingly shown through slavery, even that can be taken away with people being sold for money and forced to work the rest of their lives, never being free again. Well, even if my body can be owned by somebody else, my mind will always be mine to own. Is it really, though? Think of the people in North Korea and how propaganda has flooded their minds with what the government wants them to think. Do you truly believe that they own their minds? Or even in the case of yourself were all just products of our environments, even if we can break free from that, we will never truly own our minds. Well, even if my mind could be controlled by corporations or goverments my memories will always be mine and mine alone, but think of retirement homes and their dementia wards. Do those people truly still own their memories when they can’t even tell they’re looking at their own children, and when you die and wither away, the earth reclaims your body and owns you, but even the earth will die eventually and will go back to the true owner of everything, death. Everything that lives will always return to it, no matter how long it takes. Even when the last star in the universe is extinguished, there will only be one thing left.

Even in this life, though, there is one thing that you do own your relationships, whether bad or good, the bonds you make with other people are something that death itself couldn’t take away because it will always have an impact, no matter how small or big in the world or maybe even the universe, even when the last star dies and the universe go into total darkness maybe your interaction with a random passerbyer on a train might have had a butterfly effect to stave off or making destruction in the universe happen even faster.

Now, in the case of ownership affecting your sense of self, it could be shown with the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, where Veruca Salt, one of the other five kids to win the golden ticket, is snotty, selfish, and rude she is shown to have always gotten whatever she wanted in life no matter what it was she got it on the other hand charlie was depicted as a kind honest boy who got nothing and lived a very modest life. Still, i dont think this is just because of materilistic ownership sure it definitly plays a part but itts because of the type of people charlie and veruca has been exposed to charlies family was shown to be kind hardworking people who loved there son and didnt look down on others. In contrast, Veruca’s father was shown to be a man that definitly still loved his daughter but treated her as if she was better than other people, and she should always get what she wants, so she turned out spoiled. This is where I think that it doesn’t really matter if you own a lot of stuff or don’t have anything to your name its about the quality of bonds you make and who you surround yourself with that make up your sense of self, not some stupid 80$ assasians creed game or Ubisoft monthly subscription, which I truly hope nobody pays for. That is why I believe the main takeaway from this is we should burn Ubisoft to the ground, Johnny Silverhand style, and keep good people close to you. (Kid President signing off)

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