S1E1 - Far Zenith: Godhood of the Elite Class

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What a way to start our show's brand new season with a bit of frightening wonder of unchecked power and wealth. On this episode, we dive into one of my favorite video game franchises developed by Guerrilla Games: Horizon...or more specifically the antagonists of their second installation: the Far Zenith. You can't imagine a worst group if you were to ever meditate on what would end-stage capitalism look like. If you are familiar with the franchise, then you know that their world was completely ravaged by killer machines that are able to multiply exponentially faster than the capabilities of the human race pushing back, and we're talking about machines that and I quote: "consume biomass as fuel". In other words, every living thing that responds to stimuli. It didn't go to well for humankind so they hid in the darkest depths where no machine could reach them, they devised a plan to restart humanity...and it still goes to shit because of Murphy's Law. But skipping a few plots later, the Far Zenith stick their nose back in and this time, they emerge as akin to some perverted mythology, the godhood of the richest of them all, the most elite of them all and they would see the remaining survivors of a broken world as nothing but lesser that needs to be cruelly subjugated. Stick around for this episode as we talk about all that, and we wonder to ourselves...will we have something like that...sooner or later? Not just some cataclysm that tears the world to shreds, but also the idea of a group that mirrors Far Zenith. Is it possible? The richest 1% could have a VIP ticket to escape disaster, continue life in luxury without a thought of survival nor a concern for the rest of the 99%, and then returning years later to see what remains with a sneering disregard of the remainder of humanity, completely puffed up of themselves, totally narcissistic and megalomaniacal. I surely hope not.

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