[ExI] Xenophobic Memes

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On Fri, 17 Jan 2025, Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat wrote:

> Warhammer 40,000 which began in the 80s as miniatures wargame by a company in 
> the UK with an elaborate canon or "lore" to become what seems like a cultural 
> phenomenon with movies, video games, an Amazon series, and an incredible 
> plethora of fan art of all types. The premise of Warhammer 40K is that in the 
> 41st millenium, the Imperium of Mankind spans a million worlds and is ruled 
> by a Council of Lords. The Imperium is a theocracy that worships the Emperor 
> of Mankind, a very powerful psychic that has been in a coma for thousands of 
> years and kept alive by advanced life support and human sacrifice while he 
> serves as a psychic beacon called the Astronomicon that enables starships 
> piloted by a guild of psychic navigators to always sense the direction and 
> distance to Holy Terra, the capital of the Imperium. Because the Imperium is 
> so large and spread out, it is at perpetual war with every space faring 
> civilization in the universe. The Imperium has bioengineered transhuman super 
> soldiers soldiers called Astartes or space marines. Because humanity is beset 
> by enemies on all sides, the Imperial religion preaches hatred and 
> intolerance for xenos, a derogatory for any non-human intelligence, mutants, 
> and heretics.

Thank you for sharing. Brings back memories from my youth although I never 
was a hard core 40k fan, I did appreciate it from a distance.

> Here is a music video inspired by the franchise.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQK3J1CNgG4&list=RDMM&start_radio=1&rv=6jHORvg8hOo
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> The video features the Adepta Soritas, essentially warrior-nuns that worship 
> the Emperor, fighting against the Necron which are an ancient-race of 
> uploaded alien beings that hate all biological life. The song itself is 
> called "The Litany of Hate". In light of rise of AI, and Keith Henson's views 
> on Evo Psych, I just thought it was a curious time for this particular 
> franchise with its xenophobic humanist philosophy to become so popular, 
> especially amongst women.

Maybe there's not much growth to be had for the franchinse among the male 
nerd communities, so a logical step would be and try to sell it to the 
women? You could grow your market with 100% if you succeded!

> Stuart LaForge
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