If our planet was remade into a fictional story and our country depicted accurately along with others (while obscuring telltale details), people would literally side against us.
Our country’s birth is literally akin to the Orcish horde in warcraft invading Azeroth, and then never ending wars from its birth. Our wars span the globe and we kill at least a million people per war, with generals who deeply want to use nukes (Curtis LeMay literally wanted to drop nukes over 70 Russian cities to wipe them out, saying it would be a month-long third world war; MacArthur wanted to nuke China; there were even Pentagon proposals to nuke Vietnam).
Can you imagine telling an alien invasion story from the perspective of the aliens, showing them like us, as supposedly ‘reasonable’ and committing horrific atrocities against us ‘but hey! That’s okay! Humans, especially the white ethnicity from the America region, are very violent; the peaceful ones among them will thank us as liberators!’; and also showing the families of their troops worried about the safety of their boys? You’d have scenes of the aliens killing people fighting back and depicting the aliens as the victims.
Alien looks at young human fighter going for a gun mumbling ‘don’t do it’, and then firing: What is wrong with these people? I hate this place; why are they all like this?
More than once I’ve had capitalist empires in my works described as “one-dimensional cartoon villains” and “grimdark” when I based everything they did on actual history.
I’ve said this before but if I wrote a fictional evil country and based it on America/Britain/France/Israel, people would say I’m going over the top and being unrealistic.
If our planet was remade into a fictional story and our country depicted accurately along with others (while obscuring telltale details), people would literally side against us.
Our country’s birth is literally akin to the Orcish horde in warcraft invading Azeroth, and then never ending wars from its birth. Our wars span the globe and we kill at least a million people per war, with generals who deeply want to use nukes (Curtis LeMay literally wanted to drop nukes over 70 Russian cities to wipe them out, saying it would be a month-long third world war; MacArthur wanted to nuke China; there were even Pentagon proposals to nuke Vietnam).
Can you imagine telling an alien invasion story from the perspective of the aliens, showing them like us, as supposedly ‘reasonable’ and committing horrific atrocities against us ‘but hey! That’s okay! Humans, especially the white ethnicity from the America region, are very violent; the peaceful ones among them will thank us as liberators!’; and also showing the families of their troops worried about the safety of their boys? You’d have scenes of the aliens killing people fighting back and depicting the aliens as the victims.
Alien looks at young human fighter going for a gun mumbling ‘don’t do it’, and then firing: What is wrong with these people? I hate this place; why are they all like this?
More than once I’ve had capitalist empires in my works described as “one-dimensional cartoon villains” and “grimdark” when I based everything they did on actual history.
I’ve said this before but if I wrote a fictional evil country and based it on America/Britain/France/Israel, people would say I’m going over the top and being unrealistic.
At least the Orcish horde had the courtesy of accidentally blowing up their Europe-equivalent as part of their invasion
Khadgar did nothing wrong