These talking heads distanced the player from the action, planting seeds for the quiet critiques that those early games delivered. In the earlier Infinity Ward games, these words were always quotes from famous thinkers, politicians, and soldiers, usually critical of war.
Part of it is also the series of messages that run upon the player’s death. It’s a belief that somewhere out there in the deep black is a way out of the overwhelming problems of living on Earth: If we’re beyond the point of fixing the foundation, it’s time we start thinking about running away from home.
It’s the same impulse that encourages space colonization as a response to climate change, that pushes Elon Musk to create plans to colonize Mars and that encourages some of us to consider signing up. He’s suggesting that our contemporary problems are exclusively earthbound, and that if we were to look at them from a viewpoint that encompasses the cosmic, we would find them more manageable. Putting aside that this is a swing and a miss at addressing the actual issue, there’s an important rhetorical gesture here. “In billions of years,” he said, “the sun is going to actually grow and encompass the Earth, right? So global warming is in our future.” presidential candidate Gary Johnson gave an interesting response.
When asked about climate change at a 2011 appearance at the National Press Club, former U.S.
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