Very long-winded article for no apparent reason to me. Why many things become a game is because there is a cultural shift in exercising power, at the current ti

Very long-winded article for no apparent reason to me. Why many things become a game is because there is a cultural shift in exercising power, at the current time the carrot is more often used than the stick. And then, I'm especially put off by what I can only see as right-wing populist talking points: "Religion is dying out, Western nations are culturally confused, people are getting married less and having fewer children, and many are losing their jobs to automation, so the traditional pillars of life — God, nation, family, and work — are crumbling, and people are losing their value systems" This paints the same kind of revisionist past that the modern conservatives paint (among others): that there were some good old days where the values I like were more widespread than now, and so, society is in decadence, we need to restore. No we don't, there's nothing to restore. The only way is forward.