I think that Jeff Vogel is a genius, an original thinker with a tremendous amount of creative energy and drive, like Steve Jobs, or John Carmack, or Terry Davis

I think that Jeff Vogel is a genius, an original thinker with a tremendous amount of creative energy and drive, like Steve Jobs, or John Carmack, or Terry Davis. But geniuses can be wrong, a lot, and this particular article reads like his own intrusive thoughts of anxiety and self loathing spiralling out of control and being given voice and broadcast to the world. For 10+ years Vogel has written blog posts about stubbornly making it in an increasingly hostile indie game market, and he's always sounded a little bit proud and a little bit scared. Now the pride has turned to shame and the fear has turned to dread. Western society is in decline, and the fault and symptom is that so many people are making and playing video games, the work to which he has dedicated his life.