Although I think certain pieces of media helped radicalize me(DS9, MGS, and Code Geass), they only worked because they were introducing me to concepts such as violent extremism being okay if used for good reasons, or exactly how backwards the world we live in is. Without the other things in life, they would have been just noise or may even have been part of a rightward shift.
I saw code geass when I was your average young lib and it was just entertainment for me, unfortunately. Watching it now I'm like "how did I miss these themes" but clearly I did. Most of my friends saw it too but none took anything political away from it. I remember watching Parasite with some lib friends and thinking it would at least get through to them for a minute but they all (despite being your average worker) identified with the rich owners while occasionally feeling sympathy for the poor family during the flooding scenes.
When I first watched it I realised that Lelouch was right, revolution was essential even though it would be bloody. Watching it a second time I have no idea how I ever thought Suzaku had a point. He is just the epitome of liberalism. "I need to kill people for fascists to show that killing is wrong."
God that anime was good. Like, it wasn't Marxist or anything but it was genuinely fucking revolutionary like nothing else. I remember it being compared to Death Note all the fucking time. Kira was just a reactionary 4chan troll compared to our based revolutionary stick boi.
I love how the first opening is one of the best OPs ever, and all the rest are unlistenable. One of the most interesting differences between Light and Lelouch is that Light is only able to stay ahead of the police because he has an untraceable supernatural power that takes him out of the line of fire completely, and he constantly gets help from his girlfriend or tricks his dad into telling him something. Lelouch has one ability that doesn't even even the playing field because several of his enemies also have geass, and it can be traced to him and he has to get close to his target to use it, and he is fighting almost 3/4 of the world simultaneously. So, Lelouch is actually the genius strategist while Light would have achieved nothing without constant supernatural aid. Also obviously Lelouch was based and ending colonialism and imperialism while Light was trying to become the ubercop.
Although I think certain pieces of media helped radicalize me(DS9, MGS, and Code Geass), they only worked because they were introducing me to concepts such as violent extremism being okay if used for good reasons, or exactly how backwards the world we live in is. Without the other things in life, they would have been just noise or may even have been part of a rightward shift.
I saw code geass when I was your average young lib and it was just entertainment for me, unfortunately. Watching it now I'm like "how did I miss these themes" but clearly I did. Most of my friends saw it too but none took anything political away from it. I remember watching Parasite with some lib friends and thinking it would at least get through to them for a minute but they all (despite being your average worker) identified with the rich owners while occasionally feeling sympathy for the poor family during the flooding scenes.
When I first watched it I realised that Lelouch was right, revolution was essential even though it would be bloody. Watching it a second time I have no idea how I ever thought Suzaku had a point. He is just the epitome of liberalism. "I need to kill people for fascists to show that killing is wrong."
JIBUN WO
God that anime was good. Like, it wasn't Marxist or anything but it was genuinely fucking revolutionary like nothing else. I remember it being compared to Death Note all the fucking time. Kira was just a reactionary 4chan troll compared to our based revolutionary stick boi.
I love how the first opening is one of the best OPs ever, and all the rest are unlistenable. One of the most interesting differences between Light and Lelouch is that Light is only able to stay ahead of the police because he has an untraceable supernatural power that takes him out of the line of fire completely, and he constantly gets help from his girlfriend or tricks his dad into telling him something. Lelouch has one ability that doesn't even even the playing field because several of his enemies also have geass, and it can be traced to him and he has to get close to his target to use it, and he is fighting almost 3/4 of the world simultaneously. So, Lelouch is actually the genius strategist while Light would have achieved nothing without constant supernatural aid. Also obviously Lelouch was based and ending colonialism and imperialism while Light was trying to become the ubercop.