Week 7 Day 1: Choices

This time around, I'll be tackling the idea of choice.  Because in our reading this week, we find that to our author, choice can only be the right choice if the choice is to not follow the herd.  And I for one, find this highly illogical. And to demonstrate this, I will describe to you a game I recently played that is entirely based on choice, called The Stanley Parable.  Honestly, if you want to have some laughs and some serious thought on the nature of free will and the choices we make, go ahead and get this game.  The Stanley Parable focuses on a man named Stanley, who goes to work one day and suddenly realizes that all of his coworkers are gone.  He goes out of his office to try and find out what happened.  In this game, the player is offered many choices, and each of these leads to a different ending.  For example the first choice you are offered is to follow the voice of the Narrator or not.  When Stanley reaches a room with two doors, he is told to take the one on the left.  But you as a player can easily take the one on the right.  Now, say for instance we take the ideals of Nietsche and do not follow the herd, or rather what the Narrator wants.  If we take the path on the right, we lead ourselves to more endings, some good, some bad, and some silly.  And we gain and learn from these endings.  However, if we decide to vehemently follow the Narrator, we find ourselves being led to what the Narrator describes as pure happiness for Stanley: true freedom.  He disables a mind control machine that was making him work tirelessly and never to question his surroundings, and leaves the office into the great wide world.  So, why is this path the wrong one?  In Neitsche's eyes, this path is the path of the herd, the one that everyone follows blindly.  But if someone were to choose that path after examination, what then makes that so bad?  In my eyes, it doesn't.  To me, the point isn't that everyone has taken that path, but rather that I find it is the path worth taking.  And no one can claim that I am wrong in thinking that.