• 389aaa [it/its]
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    4 years ago

    Daily reminder that aesthetic criticisms are dumb. I know jack shit about the Japanese political situation, so I have no idea if these mascots are actually at all effective, but if they are, then they should be used. There's nothing 'bourgeois' about them, anyway. No aesthetics are inherently bourgeois.

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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      4 years ago

      You say no asthetics are inherently bougeoise, yet I raise you the entire shtick of the west wing

      • SteveHasBunker [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I don’t think a narrative TV show is really “aesthetics”. Aesthetically it’s just dudes in suits giving speeches.

        • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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          4 years ago

          You could say the same thing about Harry Potter, yet it's asthetics infect all of bougeoise society.

          • SteveHasBunker [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            We dislike these pieces of media cuz their narratives explicitly send bourgeois messages, there’s really nothing inherent to the artistry itself that’s bourgeois. Ones a TV show and the other is a series of young adult fantasy books, there are examples of both those things with leftist themes

            • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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              4 years ago

              there are examples of both those things with leftist themes

              West wing and Harry Potter has leftist themes?

              • SteveHasBunker [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                are you intentionally acting daft to be a troll or did you just miss the first part of that sentence where I listed the genres both those works of fiction belong to?

                Ones a TV show and the other is a series of young adult fantasy books, there are examples of both those things with leftist themes

      • 389aaa [it/its]
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        That's not aesthetics, that's the narrative themes of a work of fiction.