I just started playing the Goat Simulator, and it is as awesome as I
thought it would be. In the game , you
take the role of a goat whose raison d'être is to terrorize the citizens of a
city and destroy everything . The goat
makes cars and trucks explode just by headbutting them, leaving a trail of
destruction and horror throughout the
small map.
It is a game made for those who had dreamed for so long to be a goat,
and indeed it is a dream come true. What is better than being an overpowered
goat who has the ability to shoot into the space simply by colliding with a
truck?
One who is estranged to the
world of gaming might perceive that the Goat Simulator is the height of folly,
a waste of time, or even a disgrace to the goats, due to the blasphemy done by
the developers by giving it strange powers. Some might even brand this
masterpiece as trash not worth looking at, but I strongly disagree. Only in a
way which is strongly philosophical and retrospective could one fully
appreciate being a goat.
Being a goat means living a liberal life free of problems and transgression of
the modern society. One is freed from the fears of the upcoming exams and the
pressure that comes with it. There is no mortgage to be paid or children to
take care of. It is a life of blissful ignorance and complete disengagement
with the society. Nobody could call you a liberal or a secularist when you are
a goat, or condemn your laziness which was an actual genetic trait.
To top it all, being a goat in the Goat Simulator is to be immortal. No amount
of damage or injury you take would kill you, and the goat avatar would simply
rise again in all its glory and awesomeness after being hit by a convoy of
trucks. It is only during the unfortunate case in which the computer crashes or
blows up due to the meaninglessness of the game would the goat ever die. You
are free to do whatever you wish , from licking the citizens with its overly
long tongue or destroy petrol stations with a headbutt. Truly a magical
experience; there is nobody that is able to stop the path of destruction.
What makes the Goat Simulator a truly better experience than our harrowing daily
life is that the goat has the freedom to do things we are so afraid to do, and
to make choices in its stupid life without the fear of being judged or
stigmatised. We human beings can’t even read some books due to the fear of
being brainwashed or being led astray. While it is true that goats can’t read,
the freedom of which it is granted symbolizes that it actually has the
potential and the will to do things by itself. I am waiting for some day during
which the goat simulator has the ability to read and outwit those cowardly
human beings.
The main principle of the life of the goat is that it is not restricted to any
law and creeds of weird organisations which pressure their members to conform
to the backwards and unyielding ways of thought. The goat is free to think
whatever it wants to; whether to destroy tanks at the north corner of the
town or break into houses of innocent people. It has the power to decide by its
own discretion, which is wrong and what is beneficial for the benefit of the goat
and its community as a whole.
Secondly , the goat does not have to worry about what his human neighbours have
to say about him; well; he’s a goat after all. The immature and childish
thoughts of the proletariat beings around him will not deter or destroy his
mind and desire. His raison d'être is clear and immaculate; destruction and
havoc.
After experiencing the free life of a goat , I figured out that we do not have
the freedom of thought and the strength to venture into a dimension of strange
ideas which is so vast and interesting. Our religion had emphasized so much
upon the discovery of knowledge , the importance of reading; so much that it
was the first ayat in the Quran. What are we so afraid of? What can a book do
to the mind? Corruption of the mind is a choice made by oneself, not by ideas
in writings. Be free like the goat, my friend!
In these times where we are too afraid to seek the truth from issues due to the
incapability to trust our own judgement, we should follow the path of the goat.
We humans should be able to grant ourselves freedom to read and think about
liberalism and those other ‘Western’
ideas we were so afraid of, the real meaning and philosophy behind it, or
else the free life of the goat would always be better than our small existence
upon this planet.
I believe that it is the obligation of
those who wish to fight for a cause to study and seek profound knowledge of
what he is fighting for. Being someone without authority does not reduce our
mental capacity to think and discover by ourselves, neither should we restrict
ourselves from thinking about choices that we make.
Be better than goats.
*goats referred above
are those exclusively in the simulator, not those that are being domesticated.
** 'Siri Serangan
Pemikiran' books are always available in bookstores .
***images courtesy of Kotaku.com
