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Re: Halo 4 and Gen Y's libido
Posted By: General Vagueness <General.Vagueness@gmail.com>Date: 2/7/13 8:15 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Halo 4 and Gen Y's libido (SonGoharotto)


: A very interesting interpretation that I disagree with completely.

: John isn't putting up a facade to present himself as a hero. Indoctrinated to
: be an emotionless war machine, he is completely lacking in subtly or
: guile. He sees himself as nothing more than a tool performing a function.
: The hero mythos was constructed around him by others.

: It is only through his interaction with Cortana that John is able to find an
: inkling of human contact, because she is uniquely sympathetic to his
: existential condition. He, a natural born human who lacks humanity; she,
: an artificial construct that feels so acutely as to be dangerous.

: To John, other people are either superiors to obey, peers to respect,
: civilians to protect, or enemies to eliminate. To him, everybody is
: defined by how protocol dictates he should treat them. The fact that John
: and Cortana can have a long association without the hang-ups of normal
: meatspace interaction is precisely why he is able to value her on an
: independent, personal level.

: This is not love or lust or any such primitive instinct. Cortana makes John a
: whole person, in a very literal sense. Losing her means John is finally
: aware of what he was lacking. The fact that so many people define this
: wonderfully complex relationship as some kind of rote 'unresolved sexual
: tension' is really sad and disappointing.

There are some wrinkles to this, I think, and maybe a missing subtlety or two, but it's really close to what I think, and you're really spot with the end (about how people see it as something other than what it is), so I pretty much fully agree.

You cannot fall off the floor.



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Replies:

Halo 4 and Gen Y's libidoCody Miller 2/7/13 12:38 a.m.
     Re: Halo 4 and Gen Y's libidoGrizzlei 2/7/13 12:56 a.m.
           Re: Halo 4 and Gen Y's libidoMiguel Chavez 2/7/13 2:00 a.m.
                 Re: Halo 4 and Gen Y's libidoCody Miller 2/7/13 10:06 a.m.
                       Re: Halo 4 and Gen Y's libidoPostmortem 2/7/13 11:10 a.m.
                             So this was a discussion about Halo?Grizzlei 2/7/13 11:22 a.m.
                             Re: Halo 4 and Gen Y's libidoCody Miller 2/7/13 11:25 a.m.
                                   Re: Halo 4 and Gen Y's libidothebruce0 2/7/13 3:24 p.m.
                                   Re: Halo 4 and Gen Y's libidoGeneral Vagueness 2/7/13 8:12 p.m.
                             Re: Halo 4 and Gen Y's libidoRevenant1988 2/7/13 2:30 p.m.
     Re: Halo 4 and Gen Y's libidohunt3r 2/7/13 2:58 a.m.
           Re: Halo 4 and Gen Y's libidoGeneral Vagueness 2/7/13 7:56 p.m.
                 Re: Halo 4 and Gen Y's libidohunt3r 2/8/13 12:06 a.m.
     Re: Halo 4 and Gen Y's libidoSonGoharotto 2/7/13 11:29 a.m.
           Re: Halo 4 and Gen Y's libidoCody Miller 2/7/13 12:11 p.m.
           Re: Halo 4 and Gen Y's libidoGeneral Vagueness 2/7/13 8:15 p.m.



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