It's the premise of the militarists, fundamentalists, and capitalists being opposed to each other, rather than just teaming up like in today's world.
please foreman domai of the drones do not complete any secret projects before i do cause i like you
also the 2 of us can team to guillotine ceo nwandibuke morgan
It's pretty much about how the end of history (and the last man) was dumb and wrong and libs are fools to think that centrist "ideology" is the be-all end-all. One of the coolest points in the video, I think, is pointing out that Alpha Centauri has a kind of default "good guy" faction, the UN Peacekeepers, who are supposed to represent the neolib status quo. BUT whereas that faction would usually be presented as such, instead it is presented as just one of many ideologies, in no way superior, in a way that clashes pretty seriously with the 90's consensus.
In short, Fukuyama can get fucked.
Ya it's always been one of my favorite games but there's some... Ideology at work there.. Like the nominally socialist free drones suffer a penalty to research because "blue sky" science projects are against their belief system. ...what? It's a worker state but all they care about is maximizing industrial productivity? Not like the ussr invented the space satellite and successfully launched the first humans into orbit. It's weird
Yeah that was disappointing. All the new factions added in the expansion are kinda like that. The core factions from the first game were a little more coherent.
