From: Fallout
Genre: Video games
Who said it?: Narration from the opening
The story behind the quote: The Fallout games are Role Playing Games that takes place in an alternate timeline. In this alternate timeline, technology has rapidly advanced from what we have today. Robot servants were commonplace but everyone still lived with a 1950’s look and sensibilities.
However, due to depleting petroleum reserves around the world, China attempted a bold invasion on Alaska and succeeded. This started a nuclear war that lasted for only two hours but devastated the United States.
Fortunately, the US government build massive fallout shelters, called Vaults, and managed to have some of the populace take shelter there. This is usually where your (nameless) character was born, with some exceptions (Fallout: New Vegas). Because of a series of events, you have to go out to the wasteland and meet people who have survived the nuclear war, such as ordinary humans, Ghouls, mutants, and even the Brotherhood of Steel.
The game always starts out with an opening narration, stating that, through all of the events that’s happened, war never changes.
Geek wisdom: People have been with conflict with other people since the dawn of time. For whatever reason; money, power, ideologies, land, resources. It doesn’t matter. Wars always start out with someone who wants something and attempts to do so through force. And it doesn’t really solve anything. Maybe it’s just part of our animal instinct to overcome by overpowering.
As individuals and the (supposedly) most superior and intelligent animal on the planet, we should always try to supercede this instinct and overcome it with logic and a realization that we do have to work together, not against each other. Nothing changes due to conflict. It’s only when we accept one another and work together that things change.
My Geek Wisdom 