Humanity's Greed

Quite a number of years back, we have a game known as Xenosaga.  It was a trilogy with the prefix of Xeno attached to it which if we look at the definition the prefix xeno, it denotes a foreign object or entity.  I feel this is a fitting definition held within the game titles.  Xenosaga was a trilogy that followed the adventures of six main characters and their journey to fight against the evil (foreign) entity known as the gnosis.  The gnosis are an alien identity that is able to travel the depths of the universe and seems to not have any particular objective besides destroying any and all life that it encounters.  An odd entity to have in the game without any background knowledge of how it came into existence.

As we play through each of the games, we follow the journey to create the perfect anti-gnosis weapon which is built as an android.  Placing the weapon aside, we have also explored the depths of 2-3 main characters’ past which have been sealed away.  The discovery of the final main character’s past had led to a breakthrough in the origins of the gnosis.  It seems that the main character was a symbolic ark that bred the original gnosis.  This is in part a factor of human greed that led the character to despair and invoke their hidden power to summon other worldly beings.  The character’s family was mercilessly slaughtered in a war for dominance of the human race.

Due to this fact, I can most likely suggest that the gnosis that was created by one main character can be the embodiment of mankind’s greed to endlessly dominate.  It continuously destroys mankind and prevents the greed to overtake humanity.  Almost as a limiting factor due to the endless battle potential against humans (since they are immune to all attacks from humans without a special device), it creates a new reason to live for in the form of survival.  We may be able to suggest that these foreign beings created by the greed of the world is leading mankind to extinction.  I feel this relates to the reading of the many-headed hydra from Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker.  There was an outlook on commoners as “a hydra-headed monster poised to destroy the state and social order”.  We can see a shift in the opinions of the masses.  The wealthy and others well off viewed the commoners as a hindrance to society and order alike in England.  They saw the mass change as a danger to themselves.  They make generalizations in order to defend what they know as normal to themselves.

In Xenosaga, the change of opinions for the masses changed drastically from human organization dominance to survival.  Survival is the base instinct of all human beings which is one thing people can relate to once all the unnecessary ideals and problems are removed unlike olden England and their views on commoners.