8 Video Games That Predicted The Future In Ways You Can't Explain
1. Metal Gear Solid 2 Describing The Rise Of Trump
Regardless of political affiliation and the 'want' to support the person behind the policies and mentalities you believe in, Trump's war on 'fake news' is entirely comparable to the future Metal Gear Solid 2 painted, where scientific facts, history and culture are mediated online, rather than accrued from objective reality.
As Sons of Liberty's Colonel is revealed to be an A.I. for the Illuminati-style Patriots, he talks to Raiden about the reality of a populace increasingly dependant on information pertained through digital means. From modifiable sources, selected "petty issues, misinterpretations and slander" can be weeded out so the message can be controlled. By proxy, the populace are fed what the Patriots want them to see, not questioning, not wanting to question, thereby denying their humanity and falling in line.
Pivot back across to Trump, and what has he tried and succeeded in doing? Weaponising social media to control a dedicated following; one trusting in his word alone, and one that is conditioned to disregard what they would dutifully refer to as "fake news" elsewhere.
On the Colonel/Patriots side, their overarching statement is that they are right - they have the one truth, and all others should be disregarded. Why? Because they have your best interest at heart. Of course.
Again, the denial of free thought and the promotion of obedience.
There's also the advent of the NSA's civilian-monitoring PRISM program that emerged in 2007, and the semi-hilarious fact that 2013's Metal Gear Rising has Senator Armstrong literally yelling about wanting to "Make America great again!". Even if you trace that back to Ronald Reagan, the notion of a Metal Gear boss being the embodiment of overblown American patriotism also being the guy who got elected for doing the same thing is too insane for words.
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Any other staggeringly accurate predictions than blended game worlds with our own? Let me know in the comments!