Mofunova8 :puddicat_touchtail: :senko_tail: (npub1lgf…x4sw) Some German Guy (npub1cqr…ah7h)
As far as the "everything is political" statement goes, it's a half-truth at best. Politics is a byproduct of whatever theological and ethical framework is the dominant view amongst the leadership. The thing is, those making this take don't have much nuance in their thinking as it is.
The issue is that not only is a lot of media in the West these days extremely preachy in the most hamfisted cringe way possible, but the message that its preaching is objectively harmful and destructive to civilization as a whole.
With LotGH, the series never really preaches any particular political framework to the audience, but rather, shows the pros and cons of different political models, showing characters of both exemplary virtue and wretched vice on both ends of the political spectrum, and also has enough self-awareness and humor to genuinely engage the audience. And it's able to do all of this without undermining its serious tone.
Now, the idea of media influencing and shaping peoples' way of thinking is as old as civilization itself. However, one thing that the ancients understood was that subtlety and craftsmanship is the key to making stories memorable and making the ideals stick. The other thing that was understood was that virtues are a matter of what's in the heart and soul, spilling outward into one's deeds. Likewise, vice flows out in much the same way.
With anime in general, especially in shonen anime, an ethos of friendship, mutual reliance, and willingness to endure hardship and tribulation to overcome obstacles and improve life for the sake of one's people, and ones' community, such themes are just there organically and are baked into the storytelling. It doesn't need to be stated all that explicitly because it's obvious from the relationship between cause-and-effect in the unfolding narrative.
There was a time when Western fiction and storytelling actually understood this art of subtlety, but those days are long since gone.
The powers that be are very furious that people aren't conforming to shitlib nonsense, so they're getting increasingly hamfisted out of spite to hammer down dissenters in line. Only all that approach succeeds in doing is adding fuel to the fire.
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2023-06-10 02:19:48
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