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<blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 7735460" data-attributes="member: 6802378"><p>The sci-fi and the fantasy also can be political propaganda, for example the movie of "Assasin's Creed" where the Spanishs are the evil guys. Garth Enni's comics "Preacher" are propaganda, Far Cry 5 is propaganda, "Homefront: the Revoluntion" is also anti-comunist propaganda. The old movies where the English pirates are the good guys and Spain the evil empire are propaganda, the western movies where the Northamericans natives are the antagonists also were propaganda, Umberto Eco's "the name of the rose" is propaganda, Dan Brown's books are propaganda. "Family Guy" is propaganda. When a character from superheroes comics is gay is propaganda too. The teleserie "the maid's tale" is propaganda. You are used to listen only a point of view, and then you can't understand the reason because other people have got different opinions but they aren't really bad folks.</p><p></p><p>The evil corporations can be a usual antagonist in the geek fiction (movies, teleseries, comics, novels, videogames)... but when it starts to be a too used cliché but the radical anticapitalists never appear like a menace for our freedom and rights, then somebody suspects there is a double standad in the media. In the past the communist spies were usual antagonists in the pulp fiction, but they don't appear now. What has happened in the (geek) fiction? When have you seen in the media a villain like the fictional equivalent to Fidel Castro, Vladimir Putin or Xi Jiping? Maybe the last time with a character like this was Cuervo Jones from the movie "Escape from L.A", or the videogame "Homefront: the revolution". </p><p></p><p>Don't you notice it? When creators and authors of a fiction work are designing the background of a franchise (also in the RPGs titlles), they are also impriming their own vision of the reality, their own predjudices. You can add characters like Lex Luthor, Norman Osbon(Green Goblin), Montgomery Burns(Simpsons) and companies like OCP(Robocop), Umbrella Corporation(Resident Evil), Hammer Industries (rival of Tony Stark) or Tyrell Corporation (from "Blade Runner"), Wyland-Yunati Corporation(aliens), Cyberdine Systems(Terminator), Abrasax Industries(Jupiter Ascending), Pentex(Werewolf: the Apocalipse) or Abstengo Industries (Assasin's Creeed), Even the terrorist group Cobra was a multinational corporation in "G.I.Joe: Renegades"!! . When in the fiction in the main media (almost) all richest businessmen are evil and never mentioned the pain caused by extreme-left groups, then something isn't right. </p><p></p><p>Fiction is right to having fun and fogert your problems for a time, but we have to be careful because maybe we are only watching one point of view, only one can tell his own visions of the events, and that could be dangerous. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Sorry, I am not a troll and I don't wan't cause controversy, but I don't like the idea the fiction to be used to show only certains points of view about the society and the History. I feel like Friedrich Hayek, Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman or Thomas Sowell reading "Superman: Red Son" by Mark Millar. (or a Blackafrican reading "Tintin in Congo", or a Northamerican aborigen wathching "They died with the boots on"). I miss a new Ayn Rand for the current geek fiction. Have you thought anytime about how would be the cyberpunk genre written by defenders of minarchism, anarcocapitalism, anarcho-capitalism or economic-liberalism, the ci-fi version of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"?</p><p></p><p>How to explain it better? (sorry, English isn't my naive languange) Let's imagine this example: A group of fanboys are playing "7th Sea", they are English-speakers, but with some anti-Spanish predjudices (by fault of the "Black Legend". It is curious, but actually USA is suffering their own version of the black legend created by propaganda of rival powers). Then the Gamemaster tells Castilla is the evil empire and the queen Elaine of Avalon an heroine, but in other land a second group also are playing the same title, and they are pro-hispanist Spanish-speakers. Then canon is broken, destroyed, and the Castillans becomes the coolest guys in the world of Téah, they discover the new world and help natives to rebell againts the goa'uld tirants, and the queen Elaine is a genocide villain who is allied with vampires, who control masony lodges and secrets societies trying terminate Vatican Church, the last hope againts the menace of supernatural creatures. The fiction, also the roleplaying games, is influenced by the point of view of authors and creators, and sometimes they have predjudices, but we don't notice because we are too used to see them in the main media and (almost) nobody dares to say it to be wrong. Today we say racism againts Northamerican indigenous in he old far-west movies, is wrong, and maybe tomorrow people will say extreme-left predjudices againts Christianity and businessmen aren't (totally?) right. </p><p></p><p>* I am waiting the comingsoon movie of "Captain Marvel" because then internet will full be with lot of jokes, memes and fun stories about the skrulls (shapechanger reptilian aliens), for example mocking messages like "Stop the interestelar xenophoby!, the skrulls are totally integrated in our society, and even someones are in senior positions of responsability in liberal parties". </p><p></p><p>* The origin of the "reptilians aliens, hidden amongs us" was inspired by the 80's sci-fi serie "V" (famous by the reptilians humanoids eating living mice, and with Robert Englund, the famous actor who played Freddy Kruegger), a fabule about the rise of the nazism and the fall of the democracy. What a pity the remake wasn't too popular among the new generations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LuisCarlos17f, post: 7735460, member: 6802378"] The sci-fi and the fantasy also can be political propaganda, for example the movie of "Assasin's Creed" where the Spanishs are the evil guys. Garth Enni's comics "Preacher" are propaganda, Far Cry 5 is propaganda, "Homefront: the Revoluntion" is also anti-comunist propaganda. The old movies where the English pirates are the good guys and Spain the evil empire are propaganda, the western movies where the Northamericans natives are the antagonists also were propaganda, Umberto Eco's "the name of the rose" is propaganda, Dan Brown's books are propaganda. "Family Guy" is propaganda. When a character from superheroes comics is gay is propaganda too. The teleserie "the maid's tale" is propaganda. You are used to listen only a point of view, and then you can't understand the reason because other people have got different opinions but they aren't really bad folks. The evil corporations can be a usual antagonist in the geek fiction (movies, teleseries, comics, novels, videogames)... but when it starts to be a too used cliché but the radical anticapitalists never appear like a menace for our freedom and rights, then somebody suspects there is a double standad in the media. In the past the communist spies were usual antagonists in the pulp fiction, but they don't appear now. What has happened in the (geek) fiction? When have you seen in the media a villain like the fictional equivalent to Fidel Castro, Vladimir Putin or Xi Jiping? Maybe the last time with a character like this was Cuervo Jones from the movie "Escape from L.A", or the videogame "Homefront: the revolution". Don't you notice it? When creators and authors of a fiction work are designing the background of a franchise (also in the RPGs titlles), they are also impriming their own vision of the reality, their own predjudices. You can add characters like Lex Luthor, Norman Osbon(Green Goblin), Montgomery Burns(Simpsons) and companies like OCP(Robocop), Umbrella Corporation(Resident Evil), Hammer Industries (rival of Tony Stark) or Tyrell Corporation (from "Blade Runner"), Wyland-Yunati Corporation(aliens), Cyberdine Systems(Terminator), Abrasax Industries(Jupiter Ascending), Pentex(Werewolf: the Apocalipse) or Abstengo Industries (Assasin's Creeed), Even the terrorist group Cobra was a multinational corporation in "G.I.Joe: Renegades"!! . When in the fiction in the main media (almost) all richest businessmen are evil and never mentioned the pain caused by extreme-left groups, then something isn't right. Fiction is right to having fun and fogert your problems for a time, but we have to be careful because maybe we are only watching one point of view, only one can tell his own visions of the events, and that could be dangerous. Sorry, I am not a troll and I don't wan't cause controversy, but I don't like the idea the fiction to be used to show only certains points of view about the society and the History. I feel like Friedrich Hayek, Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman or Thomas Sowell reading "Superman: Red Son" by Mark Millar. (or a Blackafrican reading "Tintin in Congo", or a Northamerican aborigen wathching "They died with the boots on"). I miss a new Ayn Rand for the current geek fiction. Have you thought anytime about how would be the cyberpunk genre written by defenders of minarchism, anarcocapitalism, anarcho-capitalism or economic-liberalism, the ci-fi version of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"? How to explain it better? (sorry, English isn't my naive languange) Let's imagine this example: A group of fanboys are playing "7th Sea", they are English-speakers, but with some anti-Spanish predjudices (by fault of the "Black Legend". It is curious, but actually USA is suffering their own version of the black legend created by propaganda of rival powers). Then the Gamemaster tells Castilla is the evil empire and the queen Elaine of Avalon an heroine, but in other land a second group also are playing the same title, and they are pro-hispanist Spanish-speakers. Then canon is broken, destroyed, and the Castillans becomes the coolest guys in the world of Téah, they discover the new world and help natives to rebell againts the goa'uld tirants, and the queen Elaine is a genocide villain who is allied with vampires, who control masony lodges and secrets societies trying terminate Vatican Church, the last hope againts the menace of supernatural creatures. The fiction, also the roleplaying games, is influenced by the point of view of authors and creators, and sometimes they have predjudices, but we don't notice because we are too used to see them in the main media and (almost) nobody dares to say it to be wrong. Today we say racism againts Northamerican indigenous in he old far-west movies, is wrong, and maybe tomorrow people will say extreme-left predjudices againts Christianity and businessmen aren't (totally?) right. * I am waiting the comingsoon movie of "Captain Marvel" because then internet will full be with lot of jokes, memes and fun stories about the skrulls (shapechanger reptilian aliens), for example mocking messages like "Stop the interestelar xenophoby!, the skrulls are totally integrated in our society, and even someones are in senior positions of responsability in liberal parties". * The origin of the "reptilians aliens, hidden amongs us" was inspired by the 80's sci-fi serie "V" (famous by the reptilians humanoids eating living mice, and with Robert Englund, the famous actor who played Freddy Kruegger), a fabule about the rise of the nazism and the fall of the democracy. What a pity the remake wasn't too popular among the new generations. [/QUOTE]
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