I don't know how he is treated in the show but Inaros in the books is an absolute monster. The authors may be libs but they managed to show how a movement is coopted by a charismatic narcissist really well. And the asteroiding the Earth - he literally killed billions of innocent people. This is text book terrorism. And he ain't in it for the liberation of the belters or anything, but for his own personal aggrandisement. Y'all Americans need to learn to read subtext.
I think a common criticism, and the frustration that I have with the later seasons/books is not that Inaros actually a saint and being wrongly smeared. It's that, for any fiction produced under liberal ideology, any actor who seeks to radically alter the status quo to achieve a specific vision of the future, rather than promoting careful incrementalism, always has to be a cynical monster working out of self interest and fooling people into supporting a cause they don't really believe in.
It's hard to imagine that the series could have the place in media that it does if Inaros were written as a different character that accomplished changes on a similar scale, but kept violence to a minimum and really cared about raising the quality of life of all belters.
Agreed. I've been thinking a lot about this, like in almost all media the people who want to change things are always the bad guys. And I think we are taught from very early on that big changes are bad, that you can't just change things overnight. Basically the entire culture we live in explicitly teaches that change is wrong, and whoever does it is selfish or evil. Which means that everyone is super docile and super resistant to anything that might deviate from status quo. The funny thing is that this actually limits a lot of productivity and is bad for the bottom line of capitalism itself. The sad thing is that it leaks in personal life as well and hurts relationships because nobody ever wants to do the work or hold others accountable when all they offer is platitudes.
I don't know how he is treated in the show but Inaros in the books is an absolute monster. The authors may be libs but they managed to show how a movement is coopted by a charismatic narcissist really well. And the asteroiding the Earth - he literally killed billions of innocent people. This is text book terrorism. And he ain't in it for the liberation of the belters or anything, but for his own personal aggrandisement. Y'all Americans need to learn to read subtext.
I think a common criticism, and the frustration that I have with the later seasons/books is not that Inaros actually a saint and being wrongly smeared. It's that, for any fiction produced under liberal ideology, any actor who seeks to radically alter the status quo to achieve a specific vision of the future, rather than promoting careful incrementalism, always has to be a cynical monster working out of self interest and fooling people into supporting a cause they don't really believe in.
It's hard to imagine that the series could have the place in media that it does if Inaros were written as a different character that accomplished changes on a similar scale, but kept violence to a minimum and really cared about raising the quality of life of all belters.
Agreed. I've been thinking a lot about this, like in almost all media the people who want to change things are always the bad guys. And I think we are taught from very early on that big changes are bad, that you can't just change things overnight. Basically the entire culture we live in explicitly teaches that change is wrong, and whoever does it is selfish or evil. Which means that everyone is super docile and super resistant to anything that might deviate from status quo. The funny thing is that this actually limits a lot of productivity and is bad for the bottom line of capitalism itself. The sad thing is that it leaks in personal life as well and hurts relationships because nobody ever wants to do the work or hold others accountable when all they offer is platitudes.
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At first I was struggle seshing it a bit, but yeah he's a complete narcissist piece of shit once they start showing how he uses his son and Naomi.