What do I want to write about….

I’ve always wanted to write about how people who don’t deserve to get hurt, get hurt. This comes in many forms, like discrimination based on race, class, ethnicity, whatever. 

But much of it comes down to luck too, such as being in the wrong place at the wrong time, so I don’t know where I’d be going with this. After all, I’m not equipped enough to tell people what they should or shouldn’t do, or how they should treat some people and not others. 

I can’t be a paragon of virtue. I can only state my insanely biased worldview, instilled with an asinine sense of justice like I’m still a kid playing make-believe in middle school. But with my current writing abilities, I want to be able to write a piece that instills hope and stirs people to action, if only fictitiously. In that sense, I want to mimic the work of Kim Stanley Robinson, whose fictional scenarios feel compelling enough to shake the wills of even the laziest elites. 

I don’t concretely know what it is that I’m trying to write yet. I learned a lot about the different types of form from our classes, and as of late I’ve been invited to look back upon literature which I read previously.

I finished playing a video game I enjoyed lately. Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. In this photorealistic flight simulator game, you play as a pilot in the midst of a world war. You follow orders to the letter, and in doing so you get into a lot of trouble, but it all works out in the end. At the war’s climax, the conflicting nations band together to launch an attack on the greatest threat to their survival yet: mass-produced AI flight drones. Everything works out in the end so long as you follow orders, and shoot what you’re told to shoot. It’s all very cliched: humans good, AI bad, even though humanity’s malice is what led to the advent of drone warfare to begin with. But it works and leaves the player extremely satisfied with both the experience of combat and the knowledge that you are the pilot who has saved the world and has earned to right to fly into the dark blue skies of peace. As the protagonist, just by following orders and holding down the trigger, you earn the right the save the world.