Sundays are for righteous fury and fried breakfasts. Cups of tea and indignation. That’s the stuff. And I am sure something in this week’s collection of internet link materials will cause you to tut and huff. That’s just the way of these things, isn’t it? There’s always something wrong on the internet. Fortunately it gets a lot of things right, too. Let’s see if we can pick a few of those this week.
- PBS’ article on LittleLoud’s Sweatshop is worth reading: “The next layer of the game’s rhetoric unfolds more slowly. The fact is that you can’t really convey the extent of the hardships faced during a long, underpaying shift on a factory line in any medium. (You could craft a time-accurate simulation, but it would be difficult to rope many into playing it.) Instead, Sweatshop’s strategy is to pull you into the antagonist’s mindset; it forces you into the cold logic of sweatshop management and leaves you to reflect on your own descent into it.”
