Reminds me of so many games and franchises. The Killzone game was partly killed because the developers hated that people wanted to play as Helghast, learn more about their cause and stuff. Likewise Star Wars managment loathes that the EU material made the Storm Troopers sympathetic, and that they're ever more popular than the girl bosses they churn out.
The Japanese figured out this sympathy for the devil/underdog stuff a decade ago, and now it is practically a genre of manga to take the perspective of the "villain" in common story plots.
Hell, Cobra might be the Ur example of a faceless hero. Perhaps he inspired Master Chief.
The best stories have no right or wrong, but a conflict between true believers of irreconcilable ideas. Maybe that's why 40K is so popular, it is made of the stuff.
"Being wee little Gen-Xers in training, we were far too cynical to fall for this sort of thing, so we revolted against this obvious inconsistency in our favorite cartoon." As a fellow Gen-Xer, this encapsulates much of the ethos from the get-go. Great origin story essay.
Darth Vader was immensely popular when I was a kid. I had a Darth Vader t-shirt, I remember imitating his breathing when fighting with a laser sword. We like the villains because they're the closest we get to come to something we instinctively know is real - the conquest of land for your own group.
You mention the 1980s - the TV series MASH had a main character who OPENLY rooted for the communists to win. He didn't just say "we shouldn't be here," he wanted the North Korean Stalinists to invade South Korea and start the mass murder of millions, just like Mao killed 20 million in China. While the conservative doctor was ugly and mean-spirited and disliked by all.
Imagine if they made a TV series about the Goths in eastern Europe, conquering all the way to Crimea where they later set up a Gothic kingdom. They were subjugated by the Huns, but Gothic became the universal language in the Hunnic empire. The empire fell when the Goths sided with a Hunnic prince against another prince and overthrew the whole thing. Then the Visigoths conquered Italy, then went on to southern France and northern Iberia. Then the Ostrogoths conquered Italy and brought peace for decades to a troubled peninsula. What a tale of conquest and nationalism. But we don't get tales of conquest anymore. In Hollywood, the Goths would only be the bad guys.
But "capitalism" and "corporate"? Theophilus, what exactly in all this is done by "capitalism," Karl Marx' word for the market economy? When TV shows from MASH onward favor the communists? Biden and his kind are the EXACT OPPOSITE, using state power to force businesses to put non-Whites in management positions, only favoring those large businesses who go along with their agenda so those come to dominate - this way they remade business in the U.S., which had always been instinctively racialist and nationalist in the past.
"For all their talk about the workers, the fascists derive most of their support from the upper classes." (George Orwell)
And it all begins with the Jewish clique who dominate the top media. Who will make nationalists the villains in a show, not communists - they ridicule anyone who speaks about Marxism and anti-Whites today. But take seriously anyone who warns against nationalists and Whites. State power remakes all of society, whether business or on the individual level.
Reminds me of so many games and franchises. The Killzone game was partly killed because the developers hated that people wanted to play as Helghast, learn more about their cause and stuff. Likewise Star Wars managment loathes that the EU material made the Storm Troopers sympathetic, and that they're ever more popular than the girl bosses they churn out.
The Japanese figured out this sympathy for the devil/underdog stuff a decade ago, and now it is practically a genre of manga to take the perspective of the "villain" in common story plots.
Hell, Cobra might be the Ur example of a faceless hero. Perhaps he inspired Master Chief.
The best stories have no right or wrong, but a conflict between true believers of irreconcilable ideas. Maybe that's why 40K is so popular, it is made of the stuff.
"Being wee little Gen-Xers in training, we were far too cynical to fall for this sort of thing, so we revolted against this obvious inconsistency in our favorite cartoon." As a fellow Gen-Xer, this encapsulates much of the ethos from the get-go. Great origin story essay.
Darth Vader was immensely popular when I was a kid. I had a Darth Vader t-shirt, I remember imitating his breathing when fighting with a laser sword. We like the villains because they're the closest we get to come to something we instinctively know is real - the conquest of land for your own group.
You mention the 1980s - the TV series MASH had a main character who OPENLY rooted for the communists to win. He didn't just say "we shouldn't be here," he wanted the North Korean Stalinists to invade South Korea and start the mass murder of millions, just like Mao killed 20 million in China. While the conservative doctor was ugly and mean-spirited and disliked by all.
Imagine if they made a TV series about the Goths in eastern Europe, conquering all the way to Crimea where they later set up a Gothic kingdom. They were subjugated by the Huns, but Gothic became the universal language in the Hunnic empire. The empire fell when the Goths sided with a Hunnic prince against another prince and overthrew the whole thing. Then the Visigoths conquered Italy, then went on to southern France and northern Iberia. Then the Ostrogoths conquered Italy and brought peace for decades to a troubled peninsula. What a tale of conquest and nationalism. But we don't get tales of conquest anymore. In Hollywood, the Goths would only be the bad guys.
But "capitalism" and "corporate"? Theophilus, what exactly in all this is done by "capitalism," Karl Marx' word for the market economy? When TV shows from MASH onward favor the communists? Biden and his kind are the EXACT OPPOSITE, using state power to force businesses to put non-Whites in management positions, only favoring those large businesses who go along with their agenda so those come to dominate - this way they remade business in the U.S., which had always been instinctively racialist and nationalist in the past.
"For all their talk about the workers, the fascists derive most of their support from the upper classes." (George Orwell)
And it all begins with the Jewish clique who dominate the top media. Who will make nationalists the villains in a show, not communists - they ridicule anyone who speaks about Marxism and anti-Whites today. But take seriously anyone who warns against nationalists and Whites. State power remakes all of society, whether business or on the individual level.
*Please* tell me you've seen the GI Joe PSA parodies!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKxj1IB8P6Y&list=PLW6wEb1tuuqvRrUuh5iAwbK2nDAzYTtAq
You might enjoy this little trip back in time. Scroll down to "G.I. Dough" for the relevant bit.
https://markbisone.substack.com/p/stray-thought-4
I was always a fan/backer of Wile E Coyote myself.