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Oh, of course. But I disagree that it would have been this bad had they remained independent.
Maybe, But in retrospect to the first one, it merely depicted Christianity as normal for the setting, not something innately virtuous. Authority figures of the church were all made out to be either sinful hypocrites, or dogmatic oppressors.
True. Sadly, that's a prevailing trope among the gaming industry. Unfortunately, the kind of people who dedicate their lives to making games are the "artsy" Leftist types. This is why I say that if Elon and Trump and anyone else is serious about changing the culture, they need to invest in media production, not politics.
Politics is indeed "downstream" from culture. Capture the culture and popular support will come organically. Leftist comrades won't have an audience or outlet from which to project their lies. But, alas, the Right keep making the same mistakes, thinking they can legislate morality from the barrel of a pen. It doesn't work.
Politics is still the more important of the two - even purely focusing on soft power, keeping leftists out of the school system so they can't brainwash your children is more important than keeping them out of the media.
Consider this horizontal scale:
[Economics] --- [Politics] --- [Culture]
Politics is the "conduit" between Economics and Culture. There's no inherent money in Politics and politicians need to be culturally relevant to be effective. Economics, however, is reliant on Culture willing to participate in the economy. Economics and Politics are brought to their knees if the Culture, We the People, refuse to participate or issue a mandate.
Big Business needs us to work for their peanut wages. Politicians often pander to Big Business for walnut bribes. But both of them are constrained to work within the tolerances of Culture. Culture frames the limits of what's possible and permissible. That's why Big Business burns billions every year to saturate us with their ideas in order to keep us compliant to their schemes.
Education is part of it, of course. But again, people are "educated" just as much, if not more so, by the media they consume.
there were gay characters in the first one too.
But not Henry, and Varva previously rebuked the idea of making Henry gay when asked.