Look what I've found...

As the date of the World Cup Soccer nears, the rhetoric that Mexicans are a dirty, undeserving people do so as well, I cannot hope to speak about every single thing that preoccupies me in this post but I can try: as a person who lives in one of the host cities for the cup I see the push back that is happening every day near where the soccer matches are happening, near the principal avenues and the highways, near the universities, and in the public transportation system. Against any sort of order or even common sense, the governor's actions this year seem to align with the interests of foreign activities over those of the people who live here, be it hiding the undesirable parts of the cities in the north, brutalizing university professors and primary school teachers in the capitol, and even disappearing 53 highschool students this week in classical police fashion, escalating violence in the days following up to international events in this country.

In Mexico (the state and the city too) the response against protesters is, unsurprisingly, barricading and attacking citizens who demand accountability for the disproportionate number of disappeared persons this year, the historic violence against sexual workers, the cease of school activities for the World Cup, I mean, the list is quite long and these are only ones off the top of my head like??? I haven't even mentioned yet the president's suggestion that Mexicans don't go outside at all so the city can better accommodate tourists.

There's also the public transit chaffeurs general strike in Mexico City on the eleventh (here's to hoping this also happens in the other cities) so I'm not sure even tourists will be able to move at all the day of the inauguration. I might be forgetting a strike or two atp ://

Not entirely.

When we first begin the game, we meet Professor Tangrowth, who is implied to have been alone for a long time before the beginning of the game. He is the Pokémon main source of human knowledge. While there are Pokémon who have specialized knowledge on individual human elements, he has knowledge on the broadest numbers of topics from what we see.

Yet he could not do anything before meeting Ditto. His knowledge is complemented by Ditto's skills.

Then Ditto meets Squirtle, from whom we learn to shoot water, both saving squirtle and gaining the means to heal the land.

Then Bulbasaur gives us the means to grow plants.

Then Charmander... doesn't teach us anything, but it's through them that we obtain fire.

And slowly, one by one, each pokemon we meet either teaches us something or helps us in some way.

Pokopia is not entirely about grief. But it's about connections and communities. about how by helping each other we can overcome anything.