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The protomen, act 2 (rock-opera about transhumanism and who controls it)
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Author: u/traverseda With dread but cautious optimism*
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Score: 10
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Created: 2014-07-20T15:02:15
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u/traverseda [+2] With dread but cautious optimism (a minute later)
Act 1 is about the "holding out for a hero" trope mostly.
u/Ulmaxes [+3] (a day later)
Specifically an incredibly brutal deconstruction of the trope, complete with 1984 references on the crowd's part.
u/Ulmaxes [+2] (a day later)
It also taps lightly on fascism- how it can supplant the existing government: works up the people into blaming an issue on a false scapegoat, then blaming the current government for not doing enough to deal with it.
Tom listen to yourself, then listen carefully to me:
If you replace the working parts, you get a different machine.
The man who turns the wheels
They will follow, anywhere he leads.
I also love listening to this right after Act 1, as the first track of Act 2 feels like a precursor to the ultimate confrontation that happens at the end of Act 1.