I don’t think we’ve been given enough context to understand the significance of this screen shot, friend.
Wow, author did not watch Rose of Versailles, an anime where the main character dies Storming the Bastille.
Rose of Versailles was so weird. The first 10 episodes feel so meaningless and pointless, but effectively just get you to hate the nobles, and then suddenly one of the episodes in 10-15 goes "hey let's go check out how the peasants are doing".
Ended up kinda based. Weird gender politics to a degree but it didn't shy on the revolutionary era of liberalism, kinda.
A month ago, a Shanghai-based WeChat group in which young women aspire to be socialites became an instant sensation after its members were exposed to be splitting the costs of designer items and exclusive experiences, which would then be used as props and settings for their social media photos.
OH MAN THAT'S GOOD SHIT
This isn't a new thing either:
‘Many high-salaried parents have pampered their children to a very serious extent,’ as a result of which they ‘have shown keen interest in comparing the grades of their fathers and their brands of automobiles. Some children, who are used to motor-cars, ask their little friend whose father rides a bicycle: “Is that man your father’s messenger?”’
From a write-up on the Chinese Communes
Not sure how great that source is, but I think it shows that this isn't some deviation from the perfect Maoist era of communism or anything, it's just people doing what people do. Especially the bit about the pseudo "bourgeois union" that splits the cost on props lol.
