Have you watched Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. / S.A.C 2nd GIG? Those are excellent series, different aesthetic and character focus than the movie and manga, but great in its own way.
yeah seen both series & movie (1995). liked laughing man a lot, favorite episode was chat chat chat. 2nd GIG was cool too, though I don't remember the themes/ideas as well.
2nd GIG was all about foreign subversion using fake news and using a large island with nuclear weapons as a pretense to do a military intervention. It was international PSYOP. Fitting.
haha true. but stand alone complex just arose from people's shared experiences. individual eleven, though similar, was intentionally created by a virus right?
First series was emergent phenomena that the laughing man did not direct, while the second was centrally planned chaos by coaxing using Kuze, false flag operations and misdirecting.
I should say that it is just my interpretation, not the word of God or the consensus by people far more invested and interested than me.
There has always been psychological operations, but Gist took a look into the future and pretty accurately saw the next evolution given the decentralized informational networks.
