Uninteractive Fiction 2
Confession: I quite enjoy the Epic Rap Battles of History episode where three Western philosophers battle three Eastern philosophers. It’s very vulgar, and ‘Eastern’ could just have been ‘Chinese’, and it’s doubtful whether Sun Tzu is really a philosopher, and the interpretation of all of these thinkers and traditions hardly even reaches the point of being shallow… but it’s still fun. “Bitch, I authored The Art of War, so you better get your guns out. These white boys getting burned, 'cause, guess what, now the Sun’s out!” Great lines.
I bring this up only because at the end, instead of just the usual question ‘Who won?’, which appears at the end of all Epic Rap Battles video, this video shows another question: ‘What is winning?’ This is the deep question that Uninteractive Fiction 2 is asking. No answers are forthcoming. But that’s great, because it leaves the door open to a further sequel, and hence to more money being made!!!
As far as I know, there’s only a single other Epic Rap Battle that does not end with ‘Who won?’, which is the battle between Stan Lee and Jim Henson. I didn’t even know these two guys when I watched that video for the first time, although it turned out I did know the things they are famous for. But, boy, I certainly knew the third person who suddenly intrudes into the battle, and who is the reason that we don’t get ‘Who won?’ If you want to see evil –
Let’s defeat the empire of joy, friends, by making weird little games of all types. That’s when we’re all winning.