the phenomenon of dumb gamers hearing caesar reference Hegelian dialectics in an entirely self-serving and unscientific way in order to justify fascism and actually getting convinced that he’s right is one of the more tragic things about new vegas. in a game rife with incredibly on-the-nose satire about anti-communism and american exceptionalism, there’s one dialogue encounter with the warlord of an army of racist ancient rome cosplayers where they basically make him recite a Mussolini speech and just half of the people that hear it are like “damn this guy’s spitting facts!”. scary to think about
on the other hand i think it’s very funny that caesar citing dialectics makes no sense
like he’s a dumbass but everyone around him is dumber so he can get away with saying shit like “the hegelian dialectic” when someone asks why he chose to start enslaving and murdering people
anyways
curio has a really great video abt this exact topic that might be of interest to ppl
