He sees that soldiers are slaves of Nation States in service of Geopolitical goals so he creates a mercenary army free from any country, to fight for whoever regardless of ideology
This just makes soldiers slaves of the market and it's Geopolitical goals :think-mark: and when MSF got rich enough that they didn't have to take every mission, the soldiers just became pawns of Big Boss, Kaz, and Ocelot. Virtually no different than serving the US or the USSR, which they end up doing anyways.
A world where soldiers are free and will always have place? The only person remotely free in this new scenario is Big Boss!!!!! :think-mark:
Motherfucker he's on literal 1984 Big Boss is watching you posters in V, how much more direct do you want this to get.
If Kojima has any coherent politics, and he kind of seems to do, it leans arnachist. The MSF just joins random wars for money in Peace Walker and V, they're literally, honest to god mercenaries who don't care what they fight, you just randomly send them across the globe to kill some folks. This is a bad thing.
But a sizeable amount of people go "oh well Big Boss saves the world" or whatever and yeah he does, sure, he also runs a private army of hired killers that don't care who they're fighting. You have at least one literal fucking child soldier in Peace Walker you can put in the combat team. It's all out in the open.
And you know what, call me a Fanboy, but it's fucking brilliant. You're actively managing the private for profit army you brainwash-recruit together from random conscripts as a cult leader which sends those people to fight shit all over the world but you know Big Boss does occasionally safe the world and is kind of nice and also cool so obviously he's the good guy.
I'm pretty sure both Peace Walker and V are a meta-commentary about how easy people would be to rope into this shit. Hey look we have charismatic cool guy who occasionally does good shit, obviously he's good, disregard the torture and the nukes and fighting in unnamed conflicts for money haha. It seems to me filtered through a lense of understanding "evil" organisations as if they're all either in combat, kicking puppies to death, or sitting around muttering slurs under their breath. You know that photo of the taliban having a nice day out in boats that shocked so many people? it's that mindset. The Taliban are bad, because they're bad, so they must spend their whole day conniving and making up plans as to how to kill more puppies and tie virgings to traintracks while twiddling with their mustaches, no fun allowed.
But you know, you see the good guy story. Boss saving some children. Boss stopping some giant mech, or a virus, or taking someone in who's shit outta luck. And then he goes on to murder 50 soviet conscripts. You know, good guy shit.
He's the protagonist, not the good guy. And the way everyone misses this proves what I think is Kojimas Meta-Message right, you can have someone do vile shit all day long if you hide it and the cult leader occasionally does some good shit on camera.
I personally think Kojima is somewhat of a "realist" in the truest sense of that word in that he seems to recognize that anyone who seeks to move history in any direction by exercising power for any reason (though perhaps especially in service to some sort of ideal) is destined to be both hero and villain. Ultimately in the scheme of it all: the real villain of the Metal Gear series is no one man or woman, or even a group of people, but rather the system they built which they themselves become consumed by.
The antagonist of MGS 2 is literally the system they build which they themselves become consumed by, and that trend continues through 4.
Good take, also important to note that all the Big Boss stuff came after MGS2 which has some very accurate predictions about the internet and mass media.
Kojima was right about everything except his depiction of women, which sucks.
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