Blogpost #6: Mass Effect Part 2

          Cosmicism has become an idea that is revolving my mind and I am still wishing to seek other people's view on this. Why do I get the idea that comicism is what is happening to our lives right now. With this amazing thought as well, I have also decided to buy a copy of Mass Effect 3 for my Xbox 360. I think I will enjoy playing Mass Effect because like I said, Cosmicism! This will be the second part of my Mass Effect blogposts that discusses Cosmicism.

          This second article is entitled " Philosophy and Mass Effect: A Response to Popbioethics" written by erikthereddest. The article was posted on lanternhollowpress.com .


" One must accept the premise that the technology to explore the universe is a trap, and a structure that forces galactic civilization to follow an invariable path. "

          Technology is a trap ! Woah. Now that is something that surprise me. Suddenly after reading that part I got a self-realization of what technology is. I know that improving technology might be bad but can be reverted if we control it's growth. Another but ! Yes ! It is just a trap. A trap that might cause us to steer towards an undesirable path. Why did I say undesirable ? Because when we reach this certain path, we will realize it was something painful. What we did has no turning point. We can't change. We can't do anything. We now just clinging to a small spec of hope and wishing for survival. Salvation will become impossible for we are on our own.

          This is one of the fun thoughts that invade my brain everytime I think of what I said "Salvation will become impossible for we are on our own " . I usually think that there might be false prophets during this time. Why would there be false prophets ? Obviously because they want to feed off of people's misery. Misery from the realization that there is no absolute or superior divine watching over them. Likewise, this is the perfect time for the arrival of false prophets. But like I said, this is one of the fun thoughts I have so I also imagine in the reality where cosmicism is present, heroes will arise. Heroes that will stand even though salvation is out of our reach. Heroes that will fight for survival not actual salvation. And finally we might realize something, faith is given to ourselves and to ourselves only.

          Now I want to go back to the invariable path. What kind of compelling forces of evil might awaits us there ? I have a fun prediction. It can either be technology itself or maybe even worse. Ourselves. We might reach the point where this path might be the place where we no longer hold our old moral values because of technology. We might become cold and heartless machines that is very similar to how technology has changed everything. Now that is really horrible. With that kind of event occurring, we might even drive our race to extinction.

" Mass Effect is the first blockbuster franchise in the postmodern era to directly confront a godless, meaningless universe indifferent to humanity. "

         There you go. This is another reason why I now want to play Mass Effect 3. It became famous without the masses going against it's framework. A godless universe does not have problems with my own belief because if you're an open-minded person, everything is possible. But anyway like the quote wants us to know, our existence means nothing. We have no meaning. Don't take it in the wrong way. It is just a certain type of belief. No one is forcing you to believe it. Now for my reccomendation, for those who haven't played Mass Effect just like me, We should give it a shot. Let us allow our selves to dwell in its structure that was built on cosmicism. That would really give us a greater feel on how cosmicism is portrayed.