This Are Serious Question

[bcholmes]

Do you think, 100 years from now, there will be historical societies that reenact the great hostile takeover of Corporation XYZ by Corporation ABC?

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[rbowspryte.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. A tribe is a tribe is a tribe. Groups war and soil isn't the only resource to fight over.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

I wish they could make it a spectator sport right now, instead of a serious business that affects other people's lives.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

That might depend on whether people still wear business suits or not and whether how many people you could draw to such an event for the underlying reason that they mostly just think that a lot of people look really hot in business suits.

[sabotabby]

I may have had a plotbunny for a sci-fi novel lately where hostile takeovers were fought using private militias.

[lovecraftienne.livejournal.com]

I'd say doubtful, personally. It's not much of a visual spectacle, which is one of the keys to most historical re-enactors' efforts.

[surelars.livejournal.com]

I tend to agree. On the other hands, there's good roleplay, lots of tactics and strategy and good, basic gameplay. I could definitely see a boardgame here, and growing out of that RPG. The step from there to re-enacting is not that big.

[indefatigable42.livejournal.com]

Mm... yeah, there's fiction about corporate scandal and takeover, and there are books about bloodless political wrangling. But it doesn't really have anything for a visual medium to take advantage of.

[mathbabe.livejournal.com]

Like the historical re-enactment of the hostile takeover of the Northwest Company by the Hudson's Bay Company that takes place every summer at Old Fort William? That was almost 100 years ago.

[kat-chan.livejournal.com]

This question reminds me of that short at the beginning of "Meaning of Life", where the one insurance firm morphs into a pirate ship, and they go raiding other corporations.

I suppose it could happen. I'd like to see a reenactment of Goodyear turning back the efforts of Goldsmith.

[xthlcm.livejournal.com]

War reenactments seem to only happen in societies that don't have much war.

I suppose if corporations as we know them disappear, then maybe we'd see popular simulations of corporate takeovers in which people could participate, like Eve Online but without the spaceships.