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Civilization III (2001)

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Visual Description: The majority of the screen is taken up by screenshots of the computer game Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete Edition. She also displays a screenshot of text from the 13th Amendment at one point. There's webcam footage of a woman giving her commentary in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. She has brown hair worn in a braid, and is dressed in a gingham dress with a white shirt underneath. She wears blue-rimmed eyeglasses that help her to see, and headphones adorned with a cloth handkerchief. A pop filter is visible in the foreground. She's surrounded by a wooden picture frame. The lowest layer of the video is a sand-coloured background, derived from graphics within the Civ III game; it's shown whenever there are blank spots on-screen.

Description: There's an old adage that goes "Those who do not learn from histroy are doomed to repeat it." I've noticed that America is more and more closely resembling the government type Fascism as it's depicted in the computer game Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete Edition. We're also becoming more of a mercantilist economic system, rather than being properly free market or capitalistic. I wanted to explain my observations. My hope in this video is to encourage people to think critically, and to learn from history, so that we do not fall victim to the same mistakes as the people who came before us.

Works Cited:
13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865)." National Archives, edited by The National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives and Records Administration, 10 May 2022, www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/13th-amendment. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.

Firaxis Games, and 2K. Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete. Complete ed., 1.29f version. Steam, Valve Corporation, 30 Oct. 2001, store.steampowered.com/app/3910/Sid_Meiers_Civilization_III_Complete/. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.

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