Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Secret Project: The Ascetic Virtues

From the videogame known as Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, this is the secret project video for The Ascetic Virtues.

Secret project details:
Cost: 300
Prerequisite Technology: Planetary Economics
Effect: Increases the population limit of your bases by two, and increases your society's tolerance for use of police and military units +1 POLICE.

"Learn to overcome the crass demands of flesh and bone, for they warp the matrix through which we perceive the world. Extend your awareness outward, beyond the self of body, to embrace the self of group and the self of humanity. The goals of the group and the greater race are transcendent, and to embrace them is to achieve enlightenment."
-- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Essays on Mind and Matter"

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Category:

Gaming

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• Sid
• Meier
• Alpha
• Centauri
• Secret
• Project
• Ascetic
• Virtues
• Planetary
• Economics
• Population
• Limit
• Society
• Police
• Military
• Chairman
• Yang
• Firaxis

[Kizor]

The Hive is what it is because Yang demands this instead of recommending this.

[rbellev]

I wish that "Essays on Mind and Matter" was a full text I could peruse...

[PantsuGirl]

Like the backround music.

[Skinnyoompalumpa]

@MarciCow

We have no leader worship in Hinduism sahib

[MarciCow]

The dark side of Eastern religions is that it's easy to go from Selflessness to Leader Worship.

[prufenful]

@rbellev it basically is, just read an assortment of asiatic texts

[ih8makinusernames]

@EarthTremor Human nature is unpredictable and it is impossible to it forge into a perfect system of either total submission or total freedom. The mind wants both.

[TheArabassist]

@rbellev they should publish it, along with "For I Have Tasted the Fruit"

[SuperSmashyfication]

@EarthTremor You are correct.

[EarthTremor]

@SuperSmashyfication that can be said of any philosophy though, even libertarianism.

[SuperSmashyfication]

@MrSceptic1 Yep, but collectivism has to be voluntary or it becomes fascism.

[MrSceptic1]

The essence of collectivism. When I played the game 10 years ago, I didn't understand this, it was "tyranny" for me. Now I see the point in collectivism. Thank you, chairman Yang.