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“words have meanings” ah! well, why not dispose of the words and say only what we mean?

gendo ikari is a lot like bertrand russell and shinji is a lot like the later wittgenstein if u think about it

im growing my hair out so i can plug into your dad #avatar2

wait wait wait mutuals rb this with a description of ur voice

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dude bensons gonna tie us down and fuck our mouths when he sees how good we stacked those chairs

haha okay guys you've had your fun can i take it off now

whyd you say it all girly lol. say it normal then you can take it off. fag

but really im just saying anything due to procrasting on writing my essay. in reality all communication is inherently violent and also untrue

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My hot take is that I feel like “ghibli films are pro Japanese imperialism” is a lazy jab that grabs at a few soft spots in the oeuvre to make the cheapest most rhetorically damaging shot it can, and that an honest analysis would generally struggle to say even the most problematic of the movies like The Wind Rises come out of the wash with a positive opinion of imperial Japan. My hotter take is that if you rigorously pull at the threads where the nominally anti-war films thematically collapse, you’ll find the issue isn’t a support of Japanese Imperialism but a lack of a rigorous critique of industrial civilization.

Like, yeah Miyazaki’s most recent two films are so caught up with a pitying self regard for the cogs of imperialism that it severely undercuts his anti-war stance in a way that you could make a case that they effectively act as a sort of woobifying whitewash piece, and people have rightfully drubbed them for their inappropriate approach to nuancing the situation. But far more consistent in his work is an impulse to shy away from following through with his reckoning of the material impact of industrialization. It’s how you get Mononoke’s confused mess of an ending which sort of just ignores the implications of the continued existence Eboshi’s weapon producing ironworks a decade and a half before The Wind Rises.