where else would you see this but "White People Twitter". ironically this bullshit is turning me into the Joker.
how do you even get to this point?
"that drone strike is just like ace combat 6!" "that's bad vibes officer, you're being just like Red Skull" "this Hitler guy reminds me of the fella from Wolfenstein"
source: https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/14poz4d/aint_no_song_called_fck_the_fire_department/jqjvzak/
This is just a petty personal almost tangentially related thing, but my ex was a lib and was literally incapable of understanding anything without the lens of media and it was one of the things that grated on me a lot lol.
Like it was something I could deal with, don’t get me wrong but it was so annoying to be talking about real world shit and it always be “ah yeah that’s like in this movie” and it was always a very superficial relation as well it was like never a very apt comparison lol
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This is just how people are, and always have been. We use stories as shorthand for various concepts, or to tie current events to either actual events in the past or mythic events from our cultural mythology. Afaik it's a human constant across all cultures, whether it's Americans looking at Marvel comics or Soviet looking at Alexander Nevsky. Perisan/Iranians name everything after Rostam, India has like five different weapon systems named after Arjuna, England goes on and on about St. George and King Arthur, and other cultures all have culture heroes and folk heroes.
America is a weird country bc it's culture is a mishmash of other cultures smothered in the anti-culture of neoliberalism. Comics and games are prominent forms of storytelling in America and their wide appeal and relatively long period of popularity gives modern Americans a vocabulary they can use to communicate complex ideas to each other with references to these stories - superman and captain america do the right thing, peter parker says power needs to be used repsonsibly, etc etc. Everyone knows the stories, at least in a very basic form, so they can be used to convey ideas to most Americans.
Okay i'm turning my anthro training off now.
Yeah I mean I get that to a degree, but also I think there’s something fucked about our cultural framing being completely contingent upon corporate treat culture. And she took it to a degree I’ve never seen anyone else be as bad at which is why it was a bit goofy.
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While that may be a terrible way to understand the world, it is however the only way to really understand Kingdom Hearts