[Torg] Torg Timeline + A United Living Land

[James Knevitt]

Well, it's not really the content that's important-- it's accepting
the presence of Japanese culture. How else would companies like Ichi
be able to just waltz into LA and very publically start buying up like
crazy in any modern politico-ecomonic climate?

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Kansas Jim <ksjim at sdc.org> wrote:
> James Knevitt wrote:
>
>> I imagine that a modern retelling of the Possibility Wars would take
>> into account the so-called 'anime invasion' as further examples of
>> Nippon Tech exerting their influence in the US.
>
> I don't know about that. A lot of popular anime is about worlds nothing
> like Nippon Tech/Marketplace and in order to expand NT needs people who
> are willing to accept NT reality. While the media can be used to prep
> people for accepting another reality, media that's dominated by
> depictions of magic, super-science (giant robots, space opera, etc)
> and pocket monsters (Pokemon, Digimon, etc) isn't exactly going to be
> putting people into a proper frame of mind for accepting a reality like that
> of NT!
>
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James Knevitt
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"O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you."
-- TS Eliot, 'The Waste Land'