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Far cry 6, Hazbin, Che, and this untended anarchy priapis...
2 years ago
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So for those unaware I am a full on leftist, and to most a radical. Capitalism is evil and will be the death of us if we don't find a way to kill it first. In particular if I have to give myself a label I am an... Anarchish Communist/Marxist. I think anarchy is the proper philosophy that should be guiding every freedom loving individual in existence, but that it leaves little room for a sustainable structure of organization for preserving that freedom. Any purely anarchist society leaves itself open to overthrow through small scale fascism or any sort of organized resistance through order (I.E. Cults, political parties/alliances/or even just failure to live up to expectations of societal rewards like we're seeing in the US right now). So a communism style local government that is made of the people in an area is the best way to manage that area's resources being guided by anarchist principals seems the best way to advance to me.
If you aren't aware of Hazbin Hotel it's an indi animated series that I would have recommended over the last 5 years before the actual release. Now I will not advise against, but have to pre-qualify with "It has classic musical problems that make it really badly written." The pacing is trash for the sake of the music, and in order to do the songs and preserve those they also clearly re-wrote things so there are a fuck ton of hyper deep but not that wide plot holes. Such as: "Character 2, you are literally one of these things who has been injured, why do you need another character to tell you how to kill or injure your own kind instead of convinced to reveal the answer that saves your friends, you stupid fuck?" But there is one song/scene that gave me a raging anarchy boner. The scene where Charlie pleads her case to heaven. in the midst of which the frat bro Adam and handler Seraphim basically admit they don't understand how the process of gaining entry to heaven works at all but that they won't hold off the extermination will not be delayed because of this. Charlie and a younger angel duete to directly say "Taking this action if you don't even know the system is inherently wrong" gave me such an anarchy boner I could not even describe it. It's the heart of authoritarianism and the justification for half of the badly performing systems we see in the world. I was hoping the series would satiate this, but no. It's fine, but the inconsistency of the plot and rush to the end leaves it... Unsatisfying to me at the very least.
Now I also just played through Far cry 6. I'm an old fan having played Predator when it came out on the 360. I cut my teeth making maps on Predator. Played 5 two years back when it was even more relevant and thought it was bittersweet but otherwise perfect, and bought the whole series around new years when it was on sale. I am both amazed and disappointed in far cry 6. Far cry 6 enraptures the spirit of la revolution perfectly. It is a rollercoaster of ups and downs as you win battles and lose friends. But there are full on cutscenes that are out of 1st persons telling you Castillo's story and with these they dropped the fucking ball. They failed to make him a proper monster or sympathetic because they just don't explore what's going on with him. They don't set up how he's personally responsible, just make his personality seem appropriate to do so and give him a personal grudge against guerillas. It's unfortunate honestly because the otherwise great ending just fails to land because of this. So still my ANarchy boner stands unattended!
So to try and let things off I watched a doc on a revolutionary I didn't know a lot of specifics on. Che Guevera, who's face I'm well aware of but never knew his story. Turns out it's literally the protag from Far Cry 6 but politically set on being a commie guerilla instead of just drawn to it. "Once a Guerilla, always a guerilla" and that perfectly sums up Che and Dani.
So this anarchy priapism stands, and since there is no doctor for this sort of thing short of throwing a molotov through a senator's window, I felt I needed to vent and explain it at least. Feel free to suggest solutions, cause I'm eyeing my bottles meant to store mead reserves and rags seductive and inflamatorively.
So for those unaware I am a full on leftist, and to most a radical. Capitalism is evil and will be the death of us if we don't find a way to kill it first. In particular if I have to give myself a label I am an... Anarchish Communist/Marxist. I think anarchy is the proper philosophy that should be guiding every freedom loving individual in existence, but that it leaves little room for a sustainable structure of organization for preserving that freedom. Any purely anarchist society leaves itself open to overthrow through small scale fascism or any sort of organized resistance through order (I.E. Cults, political parties/alliances/or even just failure to live up to expectations of societal rewards like we're seeing in the US right now). So a communism style local government that is made of the people in an area is the best way to manage that area's resources being guided by anarchist principals seems the best way to advance to me.
If you aren't aware of Hazbin Hotel it's an indi animated series that I would have recommended over the last 5 years before the actual release. Now I will not advise against, but have to pre-qualify with "It has classic musical problems that make it really badly written." The pacing is trash for the sake of the music, and in order to do the songs and preserve those they also clearly re-wrote things so there are a fuck ton of hyper deep but not that wide plot holes. Such as: "Character 2, you are literally one of these things who has been injured, why do you need another character to tell you how to kill or injure your own kind instead of convinced to reveal the answer that saves your friends, you stupid fuck?" But there is one song/scene that gave me a raging anarchy boner. The scene where Charlie pleads her case to heaven. in the midst of which the frat bro Adam and handler Seraphim basically admit they don't understand how the process of gaining entry to heaven works at all but that they won't hold off the extermination will not be delayed because of this. Charlie and a younger angel duete to directly say "Taking this action if you don't even know the system is inherently wrong" gave me such an anarchy boner I could not even describe it. It's the heart of authoritarianism and the justification for half of the badly performing systems we see in the world. I was hoping the series would satiate this, but no. It's fine, but the inconsistency of the plot and rush to the end leaves it... Unsatisfying to me at the very least.
Now I also just played through Far cry 6. I'm an old fan having played Predator when it came out on the 360. I cut my teeth making maps on Predator. Played 5 two years back when it was even more relevant and thought it was bittersweet but otherwise perfect, and bought the whole series around new years when it was on sale. I am both amazed and disappointed in far cry 6. Far cry 6 enraptures the spirit of la revolution perfectly. It is a rollercoaster of ups and downs as you win battles and lose friends. But there are full on cutscenes that are out of 1st persons telling you Castillo's story and with these they dropped the fucking ball. They failed to make him a proper monster or sympathetic because they just don't explore what's going on with him. They don't set up how he's personally responsible, just make his personality seem appropriate to do so and give him a personal grudge against guerillas. It's unfortunate honestly because the otherwise great ending just fails to land because of this. So still my ANarchy boner stands unattended!
So to try and let things off I watched a doc on a revolutionary I didn't know a lot of specifics on. Che Guevera, who's face I'm well aware of but never knew his story. Turns out it's literally the protag from Far Cry 6 but politically set on being a commie guerilla instead of just drawn to it. "Once a Guerilla, always a guerilla" and that perfectly sums up Che and Dani.
So this anarchy priapism stands, and since there is no doctor for this sort of thing short of throwing a molotov through a senator's window, I felt I needed to vent and explain it at least. Feel free to suggest solutions, cause I'm eyeing my bottles meant to store mead reserves and rags seductive and inflamatorively.
