Team Fortress II
If fortress culture were not on some level successful it would not exist. My problem with it is that is subject to ever diminishing returns. Plus, it has a tendency to fall into self- parody as when a certain historic Christian tells us to stop using the words ‘karma’ and ‘luck’ on the grounds that those things don’t exist. To me this is on a level with Richard Dawkins’ strictures on Kafka and his insistence that men do not turn into insects. At any rate, if historic Christians object to the presence of Sanskrit words in English they should perhaps rethink the history of colonization. Really, though, my difference with them does indeed come down to the same concern with text and hermeneutics that divides me totally and completely from hard core secularists. They have a notion about text that I find strange. It seems to go like this. A man or woman is free if they are under the direct authority of God and not under the traditions and customs of man. This freedom they attain thro...