Kept you waiting, huh?
In this, episode two of our multi-part series of electronic video essays on KCE Japan's classic PS2 game "Sons of Liberty", we discuss how the game functions as a mimic of MGS1, and how it uses memes to comment on the burgeoning "Information Age" at the turn of the century. Along the way we also look at how truth and information are at odds in the era of "dual use" and mass communication.
0:00 - Cold Open
3:10 - Introduction
3:25 - Differences between the script and finished Tanker Chapter
4:32 - A reprise or 'echo' of Dawkins and meme theory
6:26 - How the Tanker functions as a meme of MGS1 and other references
16:55 - MGS2 and the computer age as a meme of the American revolution
30:51 - MGS2, the end of the American century, the dawn of a new world order, and the dissolving barrier between truth and information