Welcome back! In this, part two of our investigation, we discuss a host of subjects from the Cyprus 'dispute', to the events of Ground Zeroes and Peace Walker, all the way to the monotheistic myth of Abraham and Isaac.
PART ONE
0:00 - Intro, 'Cyprus: A nation divided'
1:41 - Big Boss displays cultural ignorance by 'uniting' two different dialects as simply 'Greek'. Ironically so do I by mispronouncing the doctor's name.
2:02 - Discussion of Greek Cypriot and the concept of dialects
2:20 - "A Nation Divided": words to control the unconscious, stretching all the way back to the Bible
3:25 - Cyprus: words to control the unconscious, from Othello to the French word 'CHYPHRE'. (NOTE: Othello over the years has often been played by white men in blackface, or black men, when the character is called 'Moorish': not precisely black per se, but an ethnic group called the Maghrebine Berbers. This diffuse group's name eventually became identified with Muslims, then Arabs. This is just like how Snake says 'Greek accent' as a ready-made simplification.)
"Othello is a brave and competent soldier of advanced years and Moorish background in the service of the Venetian Republic. He elopes with Desdemona, the beautiful daughter of a respected Venetian senator. After being deployed to Cyprus, Othello is manipulated by his Ancient (pronounced Ensign) Iago into believing Desdemona is an adulteress. Othello murders her and, upon discovering Iago's deceit, kills himself." (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello...)
4:06 - The concept of a Shibboleth
4:39 - La-Lei-Lu-Lei-Lo is a Shibboleth. Language is physiological as well as mental. The reason that native English speakers and native Japanese speakers do not pronounce Ls and Rs the same.
6:32 - Examples of Shibboleths in WW2 and in Moby Dick
7:23 - The Cyprus Conflict
8:35 -What Ocelot really means when he says 'easier to trust 'em', and what it has to do with the wider context of Cyprus and the 'Middle East' in the mid-20th Century.
PART TWO
10:46 - The 'real' first tapes in MGSV
11:49 - Paz's 'discovery' in the Caribbean
12:00 - Clip, the ending of Peace Walker (NOTE: It's pretty sad how everything Paz is saying here doubles as being about her, as well.)
12:52 - Rough timeframe for Paz's 'rescue' by the fisherman (NOTE: Jesus was a fisherman. He, too, came back from the dead as a phantom.)
13:16 - Timeline is obscured, but importantly, MSF get word of Paz's survival AFTER preparations for the IAEA inspection get underway. An extended discussion of the lead-up to Chico sneaking onto the Cuban black site, and how Skull Face played everyone like a damn fiddle. (NOTE: Technically, when Kaz calls Uzbekistan by that name, it's another (clearly intentional) anachronism. As of 1975 it was still known only as the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.)
PART THREE
22:39 - Chico's First Tape (first few clips)
(Throughout this section there are flashes of Green like the Green Line the UN establishes in every conflict zone it touches.)
29:20 - Digression, Secret Agent's Recording (Proves that all the prisoners on the base are English speakers. Goes into waterboarding and other aspects of the storytelling we get purely through sounds and words.)
I'm building to something huge with all this, but it takes too long to fit into one video and expect people to actually watch it. Plus, half the fun is the investigation, not the trial.
So tune in next week as we tackle more of the GZ tapes, and start to make the case for what was really going on in Camp Omega, and why Geoff Keighley and Hideo Kojima said that there'd be something revolutionary about GZ and TPP that could only be done in video games.