Yes, it’s a powerful idea. Shortly after 9/11, when the world was still in shock and everyone was leaving messages registering their shock on the Internet, including on OWF, it occurred to me that Abe is a terrorist. I didn’t get as far as predicting the demonization of terrorists to justify invasion of foreign countries, let alone thinking about how such actions would exacerbate terrorist ideas, but I did realize that the terrorists did what they did because they had a cause and a need. Don’t for a second think I will justify any form of terrorism, but I will say that fighting back against people isn’t going to cause them to lay down arms. The final connections were made in my head after Lorne promoted
September 12th at GameCity, and I played it myself.
I don’t wish for this thread to turn into a pure discussion of Earth politics, but this is one part of Oddworld that has helped shape the way I think about the world through its ‘cracked mirror’ reality.