Fascist BBC Educational Game: Satire, Prophetic or Indoctrination?
Feb 17th, 2010 | By Keelan Balderson | Category: Big Brother, NWO Symbolism, News ArchiveBBC Bitesize is an educational website in the UK aimed at preparing students for GCSEs and other exams. However controversy has hit the site after a series of Youtube videos exposed some fascist themes in one of its games and pages.
The game “State Of Debate” (which sits under another game called Destination Death) is set in the year 2020 where hoodies are outlawed. But it’s not all good news. Stand up for your fellow yoofs using the power of the English Language. I guess that’s a play on how unruly youths might say the word youths, hmmm?
This condescending tone is present throughout the game as a snooty woman appears several times to ridicule you and enforce fascist laws that have banned hoodies and trousers that show your underwear. You also need permits to use phones and sound devices, not mentioning the regulated haircuts.
It might be comical to some, but it’s as if the adult creators of the game are shouting their opinions across to kids while their mind is in a state of absorption. Children aren’t naive, but if they don’t find it funny or insulting they might very well take on the virtues of the game and see it is an intelligent emulation of adult opinion, as is often seen when children leave institutions pronouncing the positives of the EU and why mass immigration will be good in the long run. It’s no coincidence then that despite being a British game the currency is in Euros.
It’s not just a thrown together game either, serious funding seems to have gone in to its creation, with screen actors and a very fittingly designed logo that could not have been created without knowledge of the Soviet Union and NWO style symbolism.
So is it social satire, prophetic or downright indoctrination? This is unclear. A lot of its themes however, such as banning groups of children (see recent government anti-social behavior leaflet), thought crimes (see abuse of terror laws) or retroactive crimes (see tax laws) don’t seem too far over the hill.
And whether it’s a joke or not, why exactly is it on a government education website for kids? Do they really understand the pitfalls of the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany? The last clip in the game shows you joining the fascist “regulators”, so maybe it’s more about indoctrinating the youth in to a similar regime?
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Looking for an alternative news blog, I stumbled upon this oddity instead.
It’s a game encouraging debate, highlighting the importance of the democratic system and the pitfalls of those of the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany. It’s not complicated.
Of course, on one level that’s exactly what it is, but a bunch of GCSE students; perhaps with no teacher supervision and no explanation on the website might not quite grasp that.
Perhaps you simply underestimate the younger mind.
GCSE students (aged 14–16) are certainly old enough to understand. The game makes it very clear that the form of government shown is unfair. So clear in fact, I believe the message would be soundly interpreted by someone as young as 12. The game even goes as far as showing people of a similar age-group to the target audience directly telling the player that the system isn’t fair.
How any teenager, or you for that matter, could make such a wide misinterpretation is beyond me.
Because this isn’t the first instance of children being indoctrinated in to world systems of control. I myself remember how GREAT the EU was when at school, but since then I’ve fallen the other side of the coin. Hoodies have already been banned in certain areas.
I’d also like your take on the final message where the player with no choice has to join the “regulators”. Not very wholesome is it.
The BBC doesn’t exactly have a good track record.
The final message isn’t supposed to be wholesome; it is intended to highlight the loss of the player’s freedom of choice under the (nasty) regulators.
Surely if that was the case they’d have been dragged off kicking and screaming, the video portrays it as the player being perfectly happy to join.
I think it’s also worth noting that this site tends to be used without any teacher guidance, aka at home or during free time.
Predictive programming pure and simple.
The modal school child has very little appreciation for mass psychology, psychological warfare, the Fabian agenda etc…
The message of this execrable propaganda is: this is your shitty future, there is nothing you can do about it so you might as well get used to it and join it OR ELSE.
It induces cognitive dissonance into those unaware of a wiser compassionate alternative. Either join us or become the impotent enemy, it says. Those who fight it with rage will only fuel martial law. Those who cower in fear consent to it. There is another way but the Fabian BBC are not going to admit that.
In my opinion, you’ve missed the entire point of this. It’s meant to encourage debate on an overbearing state. To me, and to my 15-year old niece, the message is perfectly clear. Controlling state = bad. Freedom of expression = good. Very simple.
I do understand this, but is a kid mucking about on the games really considering this?
I’m not too far removed from the school system; they don’t walk you through this website, it’s something they just tell you to go on at home or in your spare time.
And as I said before it’s the ending that gets me.