Bastard Culture: Some Thoughts on Gears of War

Here is a video I made about men, war and bullshit. It is based on http://tinyurl.com/6d7c9xx which is a short piece inspired by the final levels of Gears of War 2. It is pretty shoddy as reviews go though, as there is not even a number to let you know how good the graphics are.

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[LongBrownCloud]

Your thoughts are as bleakly powerful as Ginsberg's Howl - without the queer sex.

Gears of War is a video game. I've never played video games. Now I know why. Game Players Beware.

I wonder why language is so male-centric. Woman talk, from my experience they talk a lot. I would have thought language would be as likely formed around the crib and the kitchen fire as the pulpit and battlefield. Perhaps you don't apportion blame for patriarchy but my feeling is that women must be at least complicit.

[frivolitom]

@LongBrownCloud Well, there is the theory that language itself was invented by the same tribes that stumbled across other "killer apps" of civilization such as monotheism, patriarchy and violent subjugation of one's rivals. I am sure you would have something charmingly misanthropic to say about that, but the reason it is so nice to see you back here is because I have little idea what it might be precisely.

[stringsandthings100]

according to the bible.."humans can only govern to their own ill"

[frivolitom]

@stringsandthings100 I'm shocked that this fact hasn't been used in every single dystopian thriller about robots ever committed to fiction.

[casiovl]

Tom,

Congratulations on creating this fine example of bastard culture. Between writing and talking "woman and children" got interchanged. There must be an important aesthetic reason for that. But, what is it?

On a different note.

Your video could just as well have been titled: Thoughts on Gears of war and Armadillo. Armadillo referring to the Danish film. Watch the director of Armadillo explain what it is about: watch?v=PNDzGYcPOws . (If pressed for time, skip forward to 5.30).

[frivolitom]

@casiovl Thanks as always for your thoughts. I was aware of the "children and women" swap while I was making it, but didn't fully think it through; I would say that, for a range of reasons, it became advantageous to divide the established "women and children" (of "first" fame) into two separate groups, the easiest way to do this by simply taking them out of the phrase customarily used to bind them. It also ties in with the theme of maleness as a centerless country where the compasses don't work.

[LongBrownCloud]

@frivolitom All this misanthrope intends to say is happy festivus to you and your kin.

[andyunderground]

Very good video !

[wretyujkij]

Manliness isn't cultural, it's biological. Isn't it futile to try to change who you are? Why would you want to? Better to let women enslave us and use us for breeding. And cut us up.

[daedxn]

Wonderful Tom, thanks.