I'm glad to see you post a new video, I'm very interested in your cultural commentary since you seem to have a very hard-to-find perspective, having conservative values while taking seriously writings of the left that shaped our culture. Not to be too typical an internet commenter, but I think it's interesting to looks at the Studio Ghibli movies through the lens of political valence, where you have the more conservative Takahata and the blue-pilled Miyazaki. Takahata was informed by growing up at the end up WWII experiencing the firebombing, and yet the movie he made set in that setting, Grave of the Fireflies, he insists was not made with an anti-war message, despite that often being claimed by commentators. It's as though viewers are primed to take away leftist narratives even when there isn't one. Instead that movie has a heavy critical focus on the main character, a child failing to take responsibility, and failing to be pro-social, and shows the folly in instead trying to live as an outcast. Unfortunately it seems like it's a minority of viewers who are able to actually pick up on that message and instead see the protagonist as a helpless victim of the war surrounding them. It is interesting though how Japan has a somewhat profound influence on our culture, and surely they went through a similar sort of post-war process as Germany, and I'd be curious how the dots could be connected there.
The whole children's entertainment is just silly. It largely stems from the era of the Hays Code in the Roosevelt administration and trying to create a more obedient society.
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I'm glad to see you post a new video, I'm very interested in your cultural commentary since you seem to have a very hard-to-find perspective, having conservative values while taking seriously writings of the left that shaped our culture.
Not to be too typical an internet commenter, but I think it's interesting to looks at the Studio Ghibli movies through the lens of political valence, where you have the more conservative Takahata and the blue-pilled Miyazaki. Takahata was informed by growing up at the end up WWII experiencing the firebombing, and yet the movie he made set in that setting, Grave of the Fireflies, he insists was not made with an anti-war message, despite that often being claimed by commentators. It's as though viewers are primed to take away leftist narratives even when there isn't one. Instead that movie has a heavy critical focus on the main character, a child failing to take responsibility, and failing to be pro-social, and shows the folly in instead trying to live as an outcast. Unfortunately it seems like it's a minority of viewers who are able to actually pick up on that message and instead see the protagonist as a helpless victim of the war surrounding them.
It is interesting though how Japan has a somewhat profound influence on our culture, and surely they went through a similar sort of post-war process as Germany, and I'd be curious how the dots could be connected there.
The whole children's entertainment is just silly. It largely stems from the era of the Hays Code in the Roosevelt administration and trying to create a more obedient society.
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