These thoughts came to mind, while recaping alot of the past MGS series.
***So it contains some spoilers for people who didn't play the series ( MGS 1,2 and 3), read at your own risk.***
So after searching for clues to know who the patriots really are and what is the connection between them and the philosophers, I found some interesting info about them, or at least that what I understood, lol.
1- They are the same people, the same formless organization, they called themselves the philosophers backthen, and now they call themselves, the Patriots.
2- The purpose of that group is to create context, and the meaning by that is creating characters, wither they are normal people or soldiers, and they all participate in every aspect of life, they create events, war and even new weapons that control war to create and control history itself and to erase what they want from their created history.
They also call it the S3 plan which stands for Selection for Societal Sanity.
3- In early 20th century and before that, it was easy for them to erase history as they like ( I meant by that, erasing what really happened, or what was really their intentions), or to "create context", now it is so hard for them to capture every information and the reason for that is the digital world, they can't hide themselves with such a powerful tech, so they created the Big shell, or Arsenal Gear in other words, to digitally manage the huge flow of information going on in the digital world that they created also.
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And now it is the most important conclusions of their dirty measures which made me think that even Snake had failed.
- Solid snake is the new victim of their actions, he is the new Boss, or Big Boss if you like to call him, that conclusion came in MGS3 at the end before the final battle between Snake ( Big Boss ) and The Boss, she told him:
"Snake...I raised you...I loved you, I've given you weapons, taught you techniques, endowed you with knowledge, There is nothing more for me to give you, All that's left for you to take is...my life...by your own hands.
One must die, and one must live, No victory, no defeat, the survivor will carry on the fight, it is our destiny.
The one who survives will inherit the title of the Boss, and the one who inherits the title of Boss, will face an existence of endless battle."
Solid Snake killed his mentor, Big Boss, exactly just like Big Boss killed his mentor, The Boss, exactly just like when The Boss killed the Sorrow, Big Boss faced an existence of endless battles until he was dead by the hands of his own blood, Solid Snake, and Solid snake faced the same fate after that, he faced an existence of endless battles until he or his apprentice will kill him.
All of that was planned from the beginning from the Patriots and they succeed to make history repeats itself.
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The Boss was a patriot who fought for her country, but in history records she is a traitor and a terrorist, Big Boss was a hero and died as a terrorist also, I don't think his real intentions were evil, I think he was fighting to stop the patriots, but he failed also, just like The Boss.
Snake is considered as a terrorist from the government, his intentions are to fight against the Patriots, he will face the same fate unfortunately.
Again, all of that was also planned well enough from the Patriots.
The Patriots succeed in every incident they created ( Shogohod, OuterHeaven, Shadow Moses and Big Shell) and IMO Solid Snake didn't do anything, also Raiden, they tried so hard and nothing stopped the Patriots, when I see MGS4 trailers, I say "what did they do?", almost nothing and no one stopped the Patriots and they succeed also to make their perfect world, a created one.
Did he fail or not? or, are we going to see something else in MGS4?
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