OBAMA’S NEW TAURAN SHAMAN OF STAFF
Over at the Mother Boing, Xeni notes that Obama’s just-appointed FCC transition team co-chair Kevin Werbach has been recognized as verifiable “virtual worlds nut” and World of Warcraft Level 70 Tauren Shaman Supernovan Jenkins, along with a breakdown of just what that affiliation means:
What does this tell us about him, as a person, as a gamer, as a government official? I will attempt to translate all the dorkese.
1. – CULTURAL RELATIVISM
Every player in WoW belongs to one of two warring factions, Alliance or Horde. Werbach is Horde. Children often choose to be Alliance because they perceive them as “the good guys”, but students of history (both ours and Azeroth’s) recognize that Alliance culture is based on medieval European culture and Horde culture is based on the indigenous cultures that were supplanted by the West.
Werbach is a Tauren (a minotaur), which basically makes him a Native Kalimdorian. The Tauren revere nature, living in wigwams near giant totem poles. As a Shaman (see below), he could also have chosen a troll (blue-skinned Jamaican-like monster) or an orc (green-skinned Klingon-like monster), so there must be something about the cow-man that appeals to his liberal guilt.
Warcraft Identity of Obama’s FCC Transition Team Co-Chair Revealed, Analyzed
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