Devil For A Father: Kojima's METAL GEAR & Nietzsche

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0:00 - Prelude
0:43 - I (or, MGS & Nietzsche in conversation)
8:59 - II (or, "The Primordial Fact of All History")
10:36 - III (or, "Fatherlands")
12:53 - IV: Masters & Slaves (or, "Morality" & "Civilization")
24:18 - V (or, "Life")
27:06 - VI: The Slaves' Revolt (or, The "First Interesting Human Event")
45:37 - VII (or, "Equality")
1:05:02 - Concluding Remarks
1:07:54 - Credits & Post-Credits Quote


"Facts do not exist. There are only interpretations."

With this beguiling quote, Hideo Kojima's METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN ended not with a whimper, but a bang. Yet this was not the first MGS game to bear the considerable influence of the 19th Century's pre-eminent "posthumous" philosopher, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.

Join Jorin Lee of Futurasound Productions in this, part one of two in an electronic virtual essay series on the close, diamond-strength bonds between Nietzsche and Metal Gear.

"Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher and cultural critic who published intensively in the 1870s and 1880s. He is famous for uncompromising criticisms of traditional European morality and religion, as well as of conventional philosophical ideas and social and political pieties associated with modernity. Many of these criticisms rely on psychological diagnoses that expose false consciousness infecting people’s received ideas; for that reason, he is often associated with a group of late modern thinkers (including Marx and Freud) who advanced a “hermeneutics of suspicion” against traditional values (see Foucault [1964] 1990, Ricoeur [1965] 1970, Leiter 2004). Nietzsche also used his psychological analyses to support original theories about the nature of the self and provocative proposals suggesting new values that he thought would promote cultural renewal and improve social and psychological life by comparison to life under the traditional values he criticized."

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ni...