For instance, the Civ games are basically Whig History: The Game, presenting liberal capitalism as the ideal end point for all societies. It even includes uncivilized "barbarian tribes" whose sole purpose is to be exterminated so you can take their land for the glory of capitalism.
As much as I still have a soft spot for it: Mass Effect. The entire universe is drenched in capitalist realism. It has moments it even critiques this in part 3 but it never really goes anywhere with it.
The ending...kinda sorta tries to be something else but it's so damn contradictory to the 200+ hours before it that it just doesn't function as the ending to the story they told.
It's amazing. A whole galaxy of spacefaring, sapient species and apparently they're all fucking stockbrokers
The Citadel, a vast ancient multispecies atrium made by mysterious ancient beings that left behind mysterious caretakers, is a fucking 90s mall in space.
The only handwave you could maybe make with that is
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Maybe the Reapers wanted everyone to be capitalist? They did plant technology all over the galaxy so that organic societies developed along the paths they wanted.
That would be clever but I doubt that was the conscious intention. Their goals were for species to develop on predictable routes that could be exploited later.
shadowbrokers tyvm
Specters are pure :fedposting: that are above the law and completely unaccountable and it's shown to be both cool and necessary. :sus-soviet:
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The same basic message was in Demolition Man, but that movie was too fun for me not to enjoy, ideology and all.
Demolition Man is hilarious. "We built a utopian society but actually it sucks because I can't drive muscle cars and eat beef!"
Oh man i know! Great series but, yes total capitalist realiism. Its also pretty damn fascist too, or at least explicitly militirastic. Only way to get around this damn red tape is for some hardass military dude to disregard civilian authority and save the ungrateful civilians. Its got some "It was the politicians! They wouldn't let us WIN in Vietnam!" kind of vibes.
I hate Mass Effect with the fire of a thousand suns. You're a vigilante super cop who can kill anyone you want with no oversight. All the bad guy races are great-replacement bullshit. And there's like, what, three different always chaotic evil badguy immigrant races? Four? I can't remember, I only played the first game and I only finished it because I wanted to see what other contrived bullshit it would pull.