Land Grab

Dream:
I was in the center of a large cubic space in Minecraft. In the center was the only patch of green in the cavern, in a shaft of light that came down through an opening in the ceiling. I was trying to defend it from others who were sneaking onto it from all sides to grab some of it, like hyenas or vultures. On a ledge at the top of the room, a player was looking for armor fragments. A hole in one corner of the cavern led to a little cave occupied by dwarves, a hole in another led to a cave occupied by giants, but I could deploy another giant from my inventory to chase them away.

Interpretation:
The evening before I was writing a comment on the land grab by corporations of fertile African land. In this comment I was calling upon the reader to boycott their products, i.e, which is references as my trying to defend the plants in the center of an otherwise infertile area. The game reminds me of the Minecraft Hunger Games in which the players kill each other over food. The other players refer to corporations, the dwarves to Third World citizens, and the giants to First World citizens. In a video I saw of The Wolf Among Us, Bigby turns into a giant wolf, substituted as the giant in the inventory, in order to protect Snow, the deputy mayor who tries to come up for the little man, substituted by dwarves, against Tweedledum and -dee, substituted as other giants. The corporate looters in the dream are protected by people from high up, however, who are only growing more and more invulnerable, referenced to as the player on the ledge gathering armor.

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