/lit/ - Literature

the story of the lure of technology - and perhaps its relationship to a power which carries within it the ability to redress wrongs, create or enact justice, and resolve political issues - is also told, i think, in another Blizzard mythology.

vidya has no end of Cosmotech goodness, but my own feeling is that the last thing to do anywhere is to unpack texts and reduce them to fodder for critical theory. what i prefer is looking at these things as being fundamentally mythological in nature, and expressing certain basic intimations about the human being and their relationship to technology and its potential, which is almost always excessive: it's the Swarm for Kerrigan, and it's the Lich King for Arthas. the fact that these stories are similar and the romances not exactly dostoevsky doesn't bother me in the slightest. what i'm fascinated with is the fact that they exist at all.