[lbo-talk] M(ordor)TV, Video Resistance

[Dennis Redmond]

I'm beginning to think that petro-fundamentalism isn't a late degeneration
of the US Empire, it *is* this Empire, through and through. Here's
everyone's favorite Dem pounding on the game culture:

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6152481.html

Not to be outdone, the Reps are simply banning the stuff:

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6152466.html

Why are they so upset? Because game firms like Valve are creating
best-selling games which show this:

http://media.pc.gamespy.com/media/740/740555/img_3648973.html

No, that's not Barad-dur. It's City-17, a lightly fictionalized version of
Baghdad in Valve's sci-fi game, where you step into the shoes of the
galactic resistance against an interstellar neocolonialism (what the US
Empire is doing to Iraq, is what the villainous Combine does to Earth).

-- DRR