@ottoman673: I hope it didn't come across like I was saying the puzzles were too hard for you. I'm not saying you're deficient or anything. I'm just saying that there's a certain attitude a person can have where the act of doing the puzzles is inherently very rewarding, and you seem to not have that attitude. Again, I'm not saying that's something wrong with you! Just saying that attitude seems to be the common element among people who like The Witness, and a lack of that attitude is the common element among people who don't like it.
I'm still having trouble figuring out what your objection to the quotes was. Can you dig into what it was about the Schweikart quote that bothered you so much? For what it's worth, I don't think it was meant as a comment on geopolitical affairs. For that matter, none of the audio logs are meant to be taken as dogma. They're just supposed to stimulate your brain and make you think about the experience from a different angle. In fact, I remember that particular audio log as one of my favorite moments in The Witness. I found it the first time I went to the top of the mountain, and it gave me something interesting to think about as I looked out over the island, at all the puzzles I'd done and at all the puzzles I had yet to do. And it helped to cement what to me is one of the major themes of The Witness, which is taking away all the petty bullshit that usually occupies us (whether it's geopolitical strife or hollow reward treadmills in video games), seeing what remains, and trying to nurture that.
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