The Games Behind Your Government's Next War - People Make Games
The Games Behind Your Government's Next War - People Make Games
This is a very interesting deep dive into how much wargaming has an influence on world politics.
Maybe I'm too cynical at this point, but the thing that most surprises me is the fact that other people are surprised at how deeply intertwined the game industry is with the military industrial complex.
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Ok I finished the video.
My main thought here is actually... What if they're wrong? What if they have the wrong people making the wrong wargames with the wrong underpinning philosophy that goes into their production?
There are going to only be liberals working at the British Army wargames companies that this covers. There are not going to be marxist-leninists at them, there aren't going to be trots, there aren't going to be any people that have even engaged with material from these things. Maaaaybe there's one dude somewhere in there who has but for real there isn't going to be anyone.
The very philosophical foundational basis of the games they create is going to be idealism, because it's the foundation of liberalism and all of the people working for british military funded things will be liberals (or fascists, basically same thing in practice here).
What if they're wrong? What if they're getting entirely the wrong people to do this because the ideology they're fighting for is just wrong? What if the ideology they're ultimately going to be fighting against(China), marxism, is right?
They probably aren't thinking about this. They probably aren't thinking much about how most of those in power in Russia were raised in the USSR and are still highly influenced by their marxist educations either, even if they are capitalists today they have a materialist educational background under a different ideological structure.
They do not seem to consider this at all.
Edit: Ah cool he covers it at the end of the video
What always happens one one drinks their own koolaid instead of dishing it out?
Intellectual collapse. The inability to draw productive conclusions from analysis.
I worry about this a lot in other fields, but it would be a blessing if it happened to the MIC.