Japanese video game designer Hideo Kojima issued an anti-woke message on his X account, advocating for teaching history even when it's most unpleasant.
Kojima is famous for the Metal Gear games.which dates back to the late 1980s and continues to be sold. 60 million copies combined over the life of the series. The game focuses on espionage against the backdrop of a secretive government and military-industrial complex. At the same time, the game has always focused on the importance of freedom and the American idea of freedom.
small island In a recent post, he announced his guiding principles. ×clearly states that no matter how dark the history, it must be done. Inherited.
“We must pass the torch and use its light to read our messy and sad history to our children,” Kojima wrote. “We have all the magic of the digital age to make it happen. Perhaps humanity will come to an end one day, and a new species may take over the planet.”
“Earth may not be eternal, but we have a responsibility to leave as much trace of life as possible. Building the future and keeping the past alive are one and the same thing,” he added.
Kojima said this was the theme of the 2001 game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
Fans quickly responded to his post with: game clip An eerie prediction of the future of online censorship:
One of the characters in the video asks, “Why do we need to take away personal freedom and censor the internet?”
Another character, later revealed to be an artificial intelligence program, explains that humanity cannot be trusted to determine the truth for itself. Therefore, AI believes that certain views need to be censored online to protect humanity from being exposed to inaccurate history.
To commemorate the game's 20th anniversary, Kojima talks about the importance of individual freedom and how society (in this case online speech) is free and can move in its natural direction without outside influence. I posted about what you need to be able to do.
“LIBERTY and FREEDOM have different meanings, and MGS2 is not about singularity, but about the 'norm' of a society with a will of its own,” he said. I wrote.
Mr. Kojima consistently argues on behalf of Western and Japanese traditional culture and advocates the simplification of society. In 2023, he wrote about watching a movie that made him yearn for a time of community and neighborhood.
“Watching this movie reminded me of the importance of 'bonds' with the community, neighbors, and local residents.”
“It reminded me of America in the 1960s and Japan in the Showa era,” he says. continuation. “When 'houses' were not isolated and neighborhoods were still close together.”
Another Kojima match was Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriotshas also been praised for its predictive properties. The 2008 release discussed civil military operations in the Middle East and proxy wars waged using drone technology and autonomous fighting machines.
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