Reminds me of the intro to Chongqing in Hitman 3 that rants at length about how heavy the surveillance is, describing it as the most surveilled place on earth with numbers that were very much below the actual, real numbers of the UK (also the map has no cameras except inside the CIA-expy facility and the CIA-expy drones flying around, for even more irony).
It's fucking wild how deep the trend of taking a bad thing that the US or its allies openly, objectively does and then just transferring that to [bad country] wholesale runs throughout pop culture and the media. Hitman has another golden example of that in its backstory: Agent 47's creation is ascribed to a Soviet program to turn orphans into magical killing machines, with heavy eugenics and race science elements to it; notably the Soviets did not do anything of the sort, but those sorts of experiments were done by the US, if not that exact fictional program.
Reminds me of the intro to Chongqing in Hitman 3 that rants at length about how heavy the surveillance is, describing it as the most surveilled place on earth with numbers that were very much below the actual, real numbers of the UK (also the map has no cameras except inside the CIA-expy facility and the CIA-expy drones flying around, for even more irony).
It's fucking wild how deep the trend of taking a bad thing that the US or its allies openly, objectively does and then just transferring that to [bad country] wholesale runs throughout pop culture and the media. Hitman has another golden example of that in its backstory: Agent 47's creation is ascribed to a Soviet program to turn orphans into magical killing machines, with heavy eugenics and race science elements to it; notably the Soviets did not do anything of the sort, but those sorts of experiments were done by the US, if not that exact fictional program.
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It's all projection