A Boring Dystopia

Responding to one critic who questioned why Glasco objected to an Iran-Israel storyline but had no issue with other conflicts featured in the series, he said: "My point is that the government would happily use entertainment, including video games, as a way to sway public opinion on major issues.

"There have been decades of pressure for a war with Iran across multiple administrations. The scenarios you mentioned, not so much."

The point of war video games is not to encourage real actual war, and it is an alarming indicator that this is how the ruling class thinks about media. Artists know intuitively until they are trained to forget, our job is not to feed into easy simple narratives for the powerful and naive, it is rather to smash problematic narratives apart into more nuanced, difficult and complex ones. Hopefully by doing this in a Sisphyean feat we approach an awareness of a truth beyond narrative bounds.

To the ruling class this perspective is a direct threat, the impetus for art is advertisement, the goal is a colonization of a corner of someone's mind in order to inject, replace and displace with a foreign narrative pure and uncontaminated by context or unwelcome nuance.