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Have you noticed modern digital games turn to be representation and mechanics of structural links between gaming and mythifying colonial legacy. In fact the games/play have a tendency to present supplementary, complimentary or subordinate to the real/ordinary/serious/everyday/real world strategies and tactics that can be observed in the canonical literature. To play to win colonial game you must master establishing singular hierarchical world order which involves discovery, assessment and classification of other world (views) as primitive, inferior, irrational and infantile and hence open to subjugation, exploitation, dispossession and elimination. These are schemes that are not limited to gaming- but cut across entertainment and social culture such as event themes etc. The question is what should be our collective view to these commercial innovations? That impact can they have? How can they be leveraged to reverse colonial negative remnants? To what extend do these simulation corrupts our current and future leaders? Must our governments develop policies around these contents in the same way adult contents are policed?

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