2009/11/22



Toastyfrog.com - Super Mario Bros 3 “The things you own end up owning you.” The Dalai Lama said that. Or maybe it was Tyler Durden. In any event, I think we can all see the truth of the statement even as we read and write about videogames, a hobby of ultimate leisure and commodity fetishism. Suffering is caused by desire. We must learn to eliminate desire for worldly pleasures. The desire for and even the possession of material goods or corporeal advancement and indulgence can impede what should be your ultimate goal, spiritual enlightenment. Only by ending this desire can you follow the path. There’s something about SMB3 that causes one to wax philosophical in a way that matches few other games. Perhaps because it’s such a pure experience, there’s nothing to say about it, so we have to go beyond what language can express in order to say anything at all.

Toastyfrog.com - Super Mario Bros 3

“The things you own end up owning you.”

The Dalai Lama said that. Or maybe it was Tyler Durden. In any event, I think we can all see the truth of the statement even as we read and write about videogames, a hobby of ultimate leisure and commodity fetishism. Suffering is caused by desire. We must learn to eliminate desire for worldly pleasures. The desire for and even the possession of material goods or corporeal advancement and indulgence can impede what should be your ultimate goal, spiritual enlightenment. Only by ending this desire can you follow the path.

There’s something about SMB3 that causes one to wax philosophical in a way that matches few other games. Perhaps because it’s such a pure experience, there’s nothing to say about it, so we have to go beyond what language can express in order to say anything at all.

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