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Welcome back to my MGS2 Retrospective, "Existence". In this episode we cover a ton of ground, to unpack why Sons of Liberty was unofficially also known as the "Hollywood Game". Along the way, we discuss postmodernism, the new "faith", why foreign and economic policies rarely change in the US, and more!
0:00 - Opening title card
0:13 - Introduction
PART ONE
1:15 - Charles Beard's "history as thought"
2:06 - The impact of Hollywood on the American psyche
3:52 - Meme theory (yet again, call it a sequel)
04:49 - The Patriots & Fiction mattering more than reported facts
07:20 - "Jack" and "Rose" (Titanic / MGS2)
09:55 - Liberia and the Movie called "Liberty"
10:59 - The 'Real' Menace MGS2 warns us about
17:45 - Intermission
PART TWO
17:55 - LA Confidential
18:47 - MGS2 as a follow-up to LA Confidential
20:44 - Lyotard and the 'Post-Truth' age
26:30 - Why liberty and democracy may be 'Grand Narratives' that become no longer tenable in the present age
31:40 - Why this isn't the doctrine that all truth is totally relative
35:00 - Faith and MGS2
PART THREE
39:23 - Disaster movies & the American post-Cold War identity
40:02 - MGS2 as the Hollywood Game in terms of environmental design
44:32 - Fatman and clocks
45:17 - How MGS2 embodies what made Hollywood special
46:00 - Importance of folklore symbols in MGS2 like Evil and the Devil
51:17 - The taboo of Hal & Emma
53:28 - Conclusion