[EPU] Thank You for Proving Our Point
PigInZen
(Was: Please Allow Me to Introduce Ourselves - Part II)
I'm back again, eUSA, with another article which will surely bore you. No memes, no clever insults, no trolling. Nope. Just a repeat of our hope to convince you to join us. Once again, I'm a believer that the median attention span of the average, everyday, red-blooded eAmerican can handle the challenge. Challenge accepted?
National Unity
I need to seriously thank those publishing articles in our media over the past day or so because I have no better example of the purpose of E Pluribus Unum. You see, there's a current complaint that a certain segment of our political realm has that the election has "been decided for you by the elites." Why, it's almost as if we're all not going to log in and have our votes actually count for anything tomorrow. It's almost as if political parties are monolithic entities whose members follow orders given from on high by their respective presidents. It's almost as if some are accusing you, the average, everyday, red-blooded eAmerican of not being able to think and decide for yourself what you believe your actual best choice in a presidential election should be.
My fellow nerds, this is a complaint about party with accusations of incompetence and graft thrown in for special "flavor". There are some who believe that real-life political definitions (libertarian, socialist, federalist, etc.) actually have relevance here in eRepublik. They, unequivocally, do not. The game does not care about what path we take to national unity, only whether WE ACTUALLY CAN GET OUR COLLECTIVE SHIT TOGETHER. I had the pleasant opportunity to read articles and posts (in the national feed, no less!) alleging that we, the eAmerican polity, are enslaved to the "elites" and that one of the candidates for President will use the mechanisms of power to enrich himself.
I won't even get into the personal messages I received that contained insults and threats because my party decided to endorse one of our own for president. I know I am not alone in this regard, others have confirmed the same messages to me privately. E Pluribus Unum is a small party. The sixth-largest, as a matter of fact. Our influence is (currently) small, relatively speaking. We're hoping both of these will change and that our purpose, illustrated in this article, will encourage you to join us in our crusade.
We cannot be an asset to our allies when we're divided by bullshit like this. We cannot muster collective power, appropriately targeted, when we're distracted by domestic political squabbles and personal insults like this. We cannot encourage new players to learn about the game, learn the most important lesson - COOPERATION AND COORDINATION - when this distortion is drowning out production conversations and communication in our media and in-game feeds.
National unity is the path to victory. We must reduce our differences, reduce domestic strife, reduce the internal bullshit, reduce the reasons to dislike each other and each others favored groups. We must increase our coordination, our cooperation, our camaraderie. The more we cooperate the more potential we have to win.
E Pluribus Unum is the party of NATIONAL UNITY. Unite or die.
"Out of Many, One"
We are recruiting. We have a long way to go to hit the Top 5. Please join us. Send a message to those that would divide us. Stand up for democratic principles. Announce your commitment to not being a dick.
PigInZen aka PiZ or Pig
Comments
First denied. Love one another. It's the only way.
,,,then why deny me?
So you don't fight over it. I am a kindly companion.
ok
When words become actions and I will start believing.
This is ironic.
Un pour tous, tous pour un
@',,, complaint that a certain segment of our political realm has that the election has "been decided for you by the elites". It's NOT?
Again, explain how a small segment has decided this election before it has happened. C'mon, AZ, I've known you for a very long time and I cannot believe you're falling for this tripe.
Maybe i've been off the forums too long.
The forums are fairly dead at this point.
ah... what you can accomplish with Love!
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I definitely support this idea of national unity. Ben Franklin said it best. We will most assuredly hang together or we will hang separately.
Nice article.
Best of luck to you guys.
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Every party always has the right to run its own candidates.
I'd also offer that, while I agree with the general points on unity and love and the relative meaningless of traditional political labels in e-Republik, there is also, in the game (as in real life), just as there is a kind of opposition that brings nothing of substance to the debate, only rancor and confusion, so there is also a kind of authoritarian, enforced 'unity' which is counter-productive. The first part of "e pluribus unum" is, indeed, "out of many". There is a dialectic at work. Do we all "become the same" or are we all "pulling together" while maintaining our distinctive thoughts, styles, identities, beliefs and so on? I'd say it is more the latter than the former.
Excellent comment
While I'll be remaining in my party, I agree with your POV. Thank you.
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I cant sing, I ain't pretty, and my leg's are thin, to know the rest of this quote, ask a few, r&r's'!