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I think the author fails to make his own point distinct enough: > Right from the start, Wolfenstein's enemies are the brutal instruments of an ideology that li
by gspetr 9y ago
I think the author fails to make his own point distinct enough:
> Right from the start, Wolfenstein's enemies are the brutal instruments of an ideology that liquidates the weakest among us.
There were ideologies promoting "Liquidation of the weakest" that FAR predated the Nazism. And those are still considered "cool" today.
All Spartan infants were brought before a council of inspectors and examined for physical defects, and those who weren’t up to standards were left to die.
Yet the Spartans are positive cultural memes, glorified for their masculine badassery, honor and valor, see the "300" for example.
My point is: If you want to talk about how bad Nazism is then you'd better approach it seriously and in my opinion this article failed to deliver that, it was superfluous.
I've played this very game for many hours, I've completed every achievement just as I did in Wolfenstein: The Old Blood. And I'm also Russian to boot. Yet I did not consider to make a mountain out of a molehill like the author did in this article.
So the nazis are the ultimate bad guys with no redeeming qualities, well who would have thought? This game has cool villains in it but it also has very satirical moments that the author failed to mention.
In the final fight the antagonist goes on a wild rant painting YOU as the actual villain for resisting the admittedly very fast progress that the world has achieved under Nazi rule and then you have to take out Zeppelins powering the antagonist's machine and when you do that the villain berates you for killing people on those zeppelins, saying that he had "put good men there. Men who had families." I honestly don't know how you can take that seriously and not laugh.
- fellellor 9y agoI agree with you, partly. I would also mention the Mongols, Alexander the great, the Roman empire and the British empire as similar examples. Only difference between these and the Nazis are the Nazis are the latest in a long line of historical villains, so their atrocities still linger in our memory while the actions of the others are forgotten, by the general population at least. Perhaps the Nazis just embody a basic human nature, and there is nothing much unique about them. Go far back in history and you are certain to find various groups engaging in similar levels of atrocities. Given this, then the Nazis are not uniquely evil and everyone is vulnerable to become the perpetrators of such under the right conditions and leadership. So it is worth it, to remind people of how ugly and damaging such a thing is. So in conclusion, to point this out, is not making a mountain of a molehill.