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Half Life is a masterwork
/x/tards are wont to interpret it through a spiritual lens, as that is their wheelhouse
But I see, especially HL2, tracks better onto what Ted Kaczynski and Nick Land are pointing at

The Combine are the faceless force of Technology, which forms nature, material and societies into useful and more and more efficient cogs

It also interfaces well with Elite Theory ala James Burnham
The Combine is a more advanced version of our already extant manigerialism and the reduction of everything down to the quantifiable and material


However, the existence of the Gman and other strange preternatural events and hidden influences in the half life world indicate other cosmic elite factions which will at least come to your aid at times

That is the essential, core, and basic message of half life:

>you are here to observe vast complexes at war with each other far beyond your control
>but you as one individual can have far greater an impact than this fact would lead you to assume (Freeman)
>and there are higher powers at work which are coincidentally aligned with you and which may help you