#Uncharted 2 secret relic series#

Of course we always РІР‚вЂњ always love to say that these guns end up in the hands of РІР‚СљterroristsРІР‚Сњ because thatРІР‚в„ўs a great scare word to put in the hearts and minds of our great conservative people. War means moving lots of bullets and rifles РІР‚вЂњ sometimes without signing any paperwork at all. Numbers that often come up triple or quadruple the official numbers. Every once in a great, and I do mean great while, a private researcher runs the same numbers. These are, of course, numbers offered up by a state that primarily concerns itself with the duties of Killing As Many People as Possible and Occasionally Sending Social Security Checks. Aftermarket M4РІР‚в„ўs and M16РІР‚в„ўs from previous wars filtered into hands that were all too eager to put them to good use.

Most went to security forces, but thousands of assault rifles and pistols wound up in the hands of civilians all over the middle east. DonРІР‚в„ўt consider me an expert of Nathan Drake.Р”Вuring the time we commonly refer to culturally in America as РІР‚СљThe War on TerrorРІР‚Сњ the Pentagon (that institution which seems to do little more than fuck up and kill people) lost track of over 1.45 million firearms in Afghanistan and Iraq.

#Uncharted 2 secret relic series#

To what end I donРІР‚в„ўt know: IРІР‚в„ўm keeping up with this series in real time. Even though his job is to steal, kill and steal again: he ultimately tries to obsess himself with whatРІР‚в„ўs right in the short term. Remnants of a time when people were still afraid of flames that did not burn orange, of lines and patterns that did not come together to depict РІР‚ВGodРІР‚в„ў. Often, they deal in the kind of knowledge we use in pulp storytelling as occult iconography. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves tells you the subtext up front: These charismatic travelers are no more than thieves who tell themselves they have great purpose. There is a museum in England somewhere hosting every Jones-like artifact stolen from another country.

I hate to dropquote in the beginning of an article, but РІР‚Сљthe rest of the worldРІР‚Сњ often means РІР‚Сљparts of the world primarily inhabited by white peopleРІР‚Сњ. The implication of every Indiana Jones, every Uncharted: DrakeРІР‚в„ўs Fortune is that these gentleman thieves eventually plan on leaving their discoveries somewhere the rest of the world can benefit.