Now I know how they could craft such a story about China

  • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Extraordinary claims require Extraordinary evidence. This however is the most common and expected situation. Liberals are just polite fascists. The nordic folk all know it to. Have you ever read a Nordic book that wasn't simply about them forcefully repressing the knowledge of what is required to maintian their lifestyle? Every single one.

      • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Girl with the dragon tatto was popular not to long ago. I can spoil it for you, but as with all nordic media the largest part of the plot is about the darkness that is secretly under every aspect of their society.

        • Barabas [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I now kind of want a nordic noir version of Karlsson-on-the-Roof.

      • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I only seen the movie, but I do seem to recall it being much darker and more mean about society than contemporary children's movies of it's time. Doesn't she have a fortune explicitly based on colonial exploitation that allows he the freedom to be herself in the face of socities dictates?

        • SoyViking [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Unlike most other children's literature it is pretty up front about the colonial stuff. Her dad who is a sailor and a king in "the South Sea" gave her a chest of gold coins, enabling her to live by herself in a house with a horse and a monkey. But on the other hand Pippi beats up cops who wants to haul her to foster care and challenges expectations of what girls can and can't do so the story has some good parts as well.

          • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            So my analysis that she explicitly uses wealth stolen from the global south to fund her idillic existence free from normative alienation is not without merit then.