Manmower
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None of this is inherently right wing. If you wanna get pedantic, the majority of these themes, and the viewpoints you described pertaining to them, are more closely skewed toward the left. Class struggle is the basis and foundation of leftist ideology. So is the corruption and fallibility of ruling bodies which operate with little or no oversight. And about money/corps being the tools of the elite... that's a narrow and incredibly simplistic conclusion that's spouted mostly by deranged leftists who view any hierarchy as indefensibly abhorrent and inherently evil. An ubermensch like JC being a tool of the evil oppressive empire is a theme that has its roots in the post-WWII modernist boom of anti-colonialist thought and sentiment. Ditto for secessionism, which itself is little more than armed fragmentationism, its many facets having been practiced and enshrined by innumerable splinter movements both large and small, regardless of political outlook. 90s conspiracy theories being in any way tied to the right wing (tinfoiler meme) is just pablum.
You know what a TRUE right-wing Deus Ex would've looked like? It would've chronicled a Nietzschean overman's struggle against his own failings as he brought the illumination of antiquity not to the masses, as they have no agency, but to others like him. The Right is inherently hierarchical and elitist. Leftists simply can't grasp this simple trusim, as they themselves are egalitarian, and view the social fabric of humanity as horizontal, when it is in fact vertical. Inequality permeates our world -- it's the lifeblood of progress, and the driving engine behind the crucible of war. JC Denton -- as the archytypical angel rising from the mud of his frail flesh -- would have gathered around him other ubermensch, instead of pointlessly straining to raise his inferiors to his own level (a leftist tendency if there ever was one).
EDIT: And they would've fucked off and made New Atlantis, instead of rolling in the mud with pigs.
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