João Vitor Tomotani¹ & Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador² ¹ Independent Researcher. São Paulo, SP, Brazil. ² Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Wellington, New Zealand. Emails: tjvitor (at) gma…
We are scared shitless of getting close to real, flawed, complex human beings. To fill that void we make up larger than life super heroic caricatures and pretend to engage in para-social relationships with those instead.
Idealism. The problem is not that "people are scared of other people", the problem is that neoliberal capitalist markets have ground down all meaningful forms of human connection (in the "1st world") through its many vagaries such as commodification, competition, and austerity. There is just no time, money, and energy to create numerous close relationships for the vast majority of subjects. Furthermore, who is 'we' here? The brain geniuses responsible for Astolfo's modern incarnation are a corporation with financial incentives to make a femboy knight, it didn't spring from the collective will of the masses.
Blaming the imaginary other for our general sickness is merely a coping mechanism.
Idealism. The problem is not that "people are scared of other people", the problem is that neoliberal capitalist markets have ground down all meaningful forms of human connection (in the "1st world") through its many vagaries such as commodification, competition, and austerity. There is just no time, money, and energy to create numerous close relationships for the vast majority of subjects. Furthermore, who is 'we' here? The brain geniuses responsible for Astolfo's modern incarnation are a corporation with financial incentives to make a femboy knight, it didn't spring from the collective will of the masses.
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