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u/SocialistWombat I listened to this twice and wasn’t able to pierce the veil. What this guys deal? Is the channel just baby’s first anticapitalism but for weebs?
Long story is this; Japan had several moments of monarchical rule under a crushing government that promised a 'good life' if you obeyed.
At one point the closet thing they had that promised an future under more equal turns (the buddist Ikko-Ikki) proposed that their 'gods' were false, that anyone can be one, however this had been utterly crushed during the sengoku period.
This cycle of 'gods' has continued into the modern age, with the latest 'god' being capitalism. And like all the gods before it seemed permanent and true. However, all gods die in time, and for some Japanese people that's within living memory (the removal of god-hood from the Japanese emperor). Therefore, to the Japanese gods are things that can, and should, be supplanted and ascended to when they no longer serve humanity.
TL;DR: 'Gods' are bullshit. The people are angry.
(As for this channel being strictly anti-captialist. Yeah, it does strike me as babbies first anticaptialism, but it does have some pretty fun insights)
I mean I “got” it (and I’m not referring to the acute early onset schizophrenia induced by listening to an hour and a half description of how insanely destructive capital has been to Japanese society sandwitched by sponsor plugs with a mid roll ad and plug in the description) but like the whole thing was delivered so inoffensively and with such neutral tone that I genuinely couldn’t clock if the cringey gamer metaphor conclusion was imploring the viewer to join a party and tear down the state or smash foreign idols or even just recognize your insignificance and reproduce your class.
Reading the comments didn’t clear anything up either because it was just a bunch of corrections about the director of Kirby games and true sexual pathology havers yelling “do xenogears”.
Like are they an anime trot? Amano/namura thought? Marxist-Leninist-Tominoist? I can’t come up with a banderite Japanese analog but you get the idea. Like are they even on some kind of political spectrum their essay can be set in or is their whole deal “this capitalism things not lookin’ so hot fellas”?
u/SocialistWombat I listened to this twice and wasn’t able to pierce the veil. What this guys deal? Is the channel just baby’s first anticapitalism but for weebs?
Long story is this; Japan had several moments of monarchical rule under a crushing government that promised a 'good life' if you obeyed.
At one point the closet thing they had that promised an future under more equal turns (the buddist Ikko-Ikki) proposed that their 'gods' were false, that anyone can be one, however this had been utterly crushed during the sengoku period.
This cycle of 'gods' has continued into the modern age, with the latest 'god' being capitalism. And like all the gods before it seemed permanent and true. However, all gods die in time, and for some Japanese people that's within living memory (the removal of god-hood from the Japanese emperor). Therefore, to the Japanese gods are things that can, and should, be supplanted and ascended to when they no longer serve humanity.
TL;DR: 'Gods' are bullshit. The people are angry.
(As for this channel being strictly anti-captialist. Yeah, it does strike me as babbies first anticaptialism, but it does have some pretty fun insights)
I mean I “got” it (and I’m not referring to the acute early onset schizophrenia induced by listening to an hour and a half description of how insanely destructive capital has been to Japanese society sandwitched by sponsor plugs with a mid roll ad and plug in the description) but like the whole thing was delivered so inoffensively and with such neutral tone that I genuinely couldn’t clock if the cringey gamer metaphor conclusion was imploring the viewer to join a party and tear down the state or smash foreign idols or even just recognize your insignificance and reproduce your class.
Reading the comments didn’t clear anything up either because it was just a bunch of corrections about the director of Kirby games and true sexual pathology havers yelling “do xenogears”.
Like are they an anime trot? Amano/namura thought? Marxist-Leninist-Tominoist? I can’t come up with a banderite Japanese analog but you get the idea. Like are they even on some kind of political spectrum their essay can be set in or is their whole deal “this capitalism things not lookin’ so hot fellas”?