For whatever reason that book is kind of a guilty pleasure for me but I agree, a lot of it is super cringe. I especially like that he says there are more neo-nazis in former East Germany than the West not because of workers there getting exploited to shit by neoliberalism after the reunification but because the Communist government told them all that they were good Communists during the war and couldn't be Nazis even though none of Germany was Communist until after WW2? Baffling.
Yeah, he also seems to get really misty eyed about idealised, liberal versions of institutions. The British Royal Family are super courageous and guide the people into creating some weird kind of woke neo feudalism where everyone goes around with two handed swords and live in castles and shit when in real life they'd all retreat to some British government Epstein Island to wait the whole thing out.
The bit where the reality TV house/compound full of rich people gets stormed by the public is a satisfying read though, haha.
Ahh yeah, also great examples. Halo is like that for me in terms of video games (even if they kept making them into the Obama years), played the remastered one and totally forgot how much the humans are neocons in space.
yeah, in the OG Halo there's none of the "Covenant are genociding humanity" and "They're unstoppable and we can't win without a macguffin" shit. Cortana aces seven Covenant ships before making the jump to the Halo. The first game is mostly apolitical military space adventures. Then in the later installments we find out that the UNSC is a fascist military junta, the Spartans are fucking slave jannisaries kidnapped and experimented on as children, the Covenant are murdering all of humanity and simply cannot be stopped, oh and the flood can talk for some stupid reason.
Halo got intensely stupid and CHUDy after the 9/11 happened.
Oh, did I mention that hte purpose of hte Spartan program was the make slave super-soldiers to crush pro-democracy movements on human colonies? Because that's a thing, Master Chief was designed to slaughter Million Women's Marches on other planets and shit.
For whatever reason that book is kind of a guilty pleasure for me but I agree, a lot of it is super cringe. I especially like that he says there are more neo-nazis in former East Germany than the West not because of workers there getting exploited to shit by neoliberalism after the reunification but because the Communist government told them all that they were good Communists during the war and couldn't be Nazis even though none of Germany was Communist until after WW2? Baffling.
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Yeah, he also seems to get really misty eyed about idealised, liberal versions of institutions. The British Royal Family are super courageous and guide the people into creating some weird kind of woke neo feudalism where everyone goes around with two handed swords and live in castles and shit when in real life they'd all retreat to some British government Epstein Island to wait the whole thing out.
The bit where the reality TV house/compound full of rich people gets stormed by the public is a satisfying read though, haha.
I remember that part. Don't Bill Mahr and Ann Coulter get minecrafted while they're fucking in a broom closet or something?
Yeah that's right, that book has some powerful Bush years energy lmao
For me it's up there with stuff like 24 and Children of Men as iconic Bush era pop culture
Ahh yeah, also great examples. Halo is like that for me in terms of video games (even if they kept making them into the Obama years), played the remastered one and totally forgot how much the humans are neocons in space.
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TBH I think the original Halo preceded 9/11
Yeah it only dropped in November 2001. It was written long before 9/11.
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yeah, in the OG Halo there's none of the "Covenant are genociding humanity" and "They're unstoppable and we can't win without a macguffin" shit. Cortana aces seven Covenant ships before making the jump to the Halo. The first game is mostly apolitical military space adventures. Then in the later installments we find out that the UNSC is a fascist military junta, the Spartans are fucking slave jannisaries kidnapped and experimented on as children, the Covenant are murdering all of humanity and simply cannot be stopped, oh and the flood can talk for some stupid reason.
Halo got intensely stupid and CHUDy after the 9/11 happened.
Oh, did I mention that hte purpose of hte Spartan program was the make slave super-soldiers to crush pro-democracy movements on human colonies? Because that's a thing, Master Chief was designed to slaughter Million Women's Marches on other planets and shit.