Report MoesianThracian's Profile

I was already thinking about some of these stories recently, so I'll go on a tangent.

Right, the Cold War heightened all of that, though you can see different strands of it beforehand. Competing for the role of "father of sci-fi" would be Jules Verne and HG Wells. You know, honestly, I don't think I ever read anything by Verne (or it was a really long time ago), but I've read several by Wells. I think Verne is more in line with "an orientation of human-technology relation" and adventure, whereas Wells is more in-between or a bit more oriented toward a focus on social commentary that questions man's relationship to the state. Wells' Time Machine (1895) has an early dystopic setup with the Eloi and Morlocks, with the former being docile and dependent on the latter, and the Morlocks basically farming them from behind the scenes for food. Wells is a very interesting character and quite political with his works. There are all kinds of interpretations of his books, but note that he also wrote this book, which most people don't discuss when talking about his fiction:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_World_Order_(Wells_book)

I checked to see what the take was on war of the worlds, with some seeming to think it's a "criticism of imperialism," (which might not seem an unreasonable assumption because the Brits were busy with some colonial ventures at the time) but I think what I linked above knocks that idea on its ass.

XD

Actually, consider the story of War of the Worlds, with that context in mind: Martians invade earth. Things kind of don't change much at first. Then there's a war, with people being killed and countries in disarray. Humanity forms an underground resistance. Though technologically they absolutely dominate the humans, the Martians are soon wiped out by a terrestrial microbe. The unnamed narrator has a didactic role, where he is saying we should learn from the event and prepare for future possibilities. I would take the events to indicate that he is saying a new world order, as detailed in that NWO book, should be formed, so we'll be prepped for an alien invasion that might never happen. It's just an idea seeded to promote heavy global centralization and control based on some unlikely threat. I think there are a lot of people who wrote similar stories because they thought it was cool, and they weren't interested in promoting any particular idea, but I'm inclined to think others are promoting an agenda or prepping populaces for the next big thing.

Similarly, if you look at the big three dystopic novels, there's 1984, Brave New World, and We. The latter one is probably the least well known, but I actually think it has touches, along with BNW, that seem far more insightful. 1984 is mostly just notable for terms it coined and the way censorship, and shifting perceptions as a result, is depicted. We isn't the jackboot bullshit that Orwell depicted (and I always laugh about his pro-Trotsky allegory that is Animal Farm XD) but is more subtle. It's a heavily surveiled spook state, with the MC frequently talking himself into compliance on his own. Unfortunately, I don't know anything about the author of We, but I'd like to look into him more. BNW is often seen as a warning, but Huxley said many things that would suggest otherwise, and it's actually a vision of shaping a more easily controllable population; I find the medicalization, extreme individualism and pleasure seeking, and the "child grooming" part far more prescient than Orwell, with it kind of being a totalitarianism of pleasure that promotes non-resistance and compliance rather than a totalitarianism of violence that would promote more resistance. On the other hand, something like E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops probably was a warning about the direction of tech. But a lot of dystopias are potentially more like blueprints or conditioning than warnings.

Not connection as if they were my friends,more so on the side that thw audience understands em

But I didn't really connect with em cuz didn't have nuff time only bits and pieces of Tetsuo's backstory and Kaneda befriending in childhood but other than that we got nothing

This kind of thing:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a43033115/pentagon-investigating-ufos-nuclear-warheads/

That's one "phenomenon" the alien fetishists point to to indicate all of this is "real."

For me, these spook sci-fi (the spooks have long had a close connection to Hollywood) narratives are a comparison to how the alleged targeting of nuclear facilities feels. Plus, the paternalistic alien narrative, where they scold humanity, seems to be a stand-in for a creator or god, cooked up to further herd dissimilar people groups together and "unite" them and further consolidate power into a new world ordure (think the alleged project blue beam and intelligence spooks infiltrating or using religion for an agenda as well). I don't really take the "risk destroying ourselves" thing seriously, and the doomsday clock thing is also laughable propaganda, with a vast amount of sci-fi also overlapping with cold war propaganda. For decades or longer, there has been the use of proxy forces, political factions, religion, and big bombs to shape the world. And the "threat of nukes" is a method to more easily and carefully shape the world without overt and costly world wars, so I simply scoff at this notion. Better to make it so they can defer to the "muh nuclear weapon" line, so then they can have Mohammed or some smaller proxy forces or countries fight on their behalf. XD

The AC manga is a short, unfinished volume that doesn't go anywhere and doesn't have the same story as the OVA. It's not even a potentially interesting different take, like how you might find with the GITS manga, movie, and series. Of course, it's been many years since I've read it, so I could be misremembering, I guess. I just remember picking it up sometime after watching the OVA and being disappointed.

Yes, that's true about many people, especially Christians, thinking aliens are the same as demons. That includes many Christians who were part of the U.S. government that were either embedded in UFO programs or interfered in some way with those programs. There are plenty of books complaining about that, lol. I don't see any reason to think aliens are equivalent to demons, but I also don't think any of the UFO and "alien" activity is extraterrestrial, so no "demons" or aliens, anyway. A lot of the military sightings, especially in the earlier years, are also bullshit radar pings (back when they first started happening, a specialist warned the government was doing this or had the potential to be the culprit for all of these as well), which can easily be faked, as well as the stupid "OH NO THEY TURNED ON AND OFF OUR NUCLEAR FACILITY," which sounds like another of those retarded films, where aliens come down and are like, "omg, you humans are so technologically pathetic, but someday you will become a potential threat to the universe if you keep at it, so you better enact world peace and kumbaya dance sessions or we will vaporize you." XD

Maybe in the manga I have yet to read yeah,in the movie not really,I'll get back with my thoughts after readin it

I don't think that's my problem of it,moreso barely gettin to know the characters and things moving way too fast

Well I mostly do stuff on overallness and enjoyment I get from em but yeah some of my thought about Akira are it has great animation but the story is another animal cuz it mostly confuses me and it jumps onto stuff fast I mean it was 100+ manga series which I'll eventually get into Otomo written stuff and then give a more solid opinion about the works

Yes, it is, though it's often thought of as an alien because of the resemblance to the big-headed grays.

cat version

That rule's now redacted

yes it was fairly popular amongst the jrpg players of the era.

Koei and Tecmo made so many of these smaller super niche japan-exclusive games like many other japanese ps1 developers.
My favorite bikini armor girls from japanese ps1 games are Marjoly from Rhapsody: Musical Adventure and Jeane of Suikoden.

i know this game, it's a super obscure tactical rpg. Cover art is not reflective of gameplay or graphics especially not in PS1 days.