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## The protomen, act 2 (rock-opera about transhumanism and who controls it)
* Author: u/traverseda *With dread but cautious optimism**
* URL: http://youtu.be/vgGYwXYt3J0
* Score: 10
* Created: 2014-07-20T15:02:15
### Post:
[Link to content](http://youtu.be/vgGYwXYt3J0)
### Comments:
> **u/traverseda** [+2] *With dread but cautious optimism* (a minute later)
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> Act 1 is about the "[holding out for a hero](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HoldingOutForAHero)" trope mostly.
>> **u/Ulmaxes** [+3] (a day later)
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>> 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.
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> > Tom listen to yourself, then listen carefully to me:
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> > If you replace the working parts, you get a different machine.
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> > The man who turns the wheels
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> > They will follow, anywhere he leads.
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> 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.
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