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lindwurmkai · 2 years

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Hold on to your seats I'm about to say something mildly inflammatory

Ok so I am obviously not a fan of anti-intellectualism either but I do have to say it was fucking weird when I came online a few weeks ago and my dash was full of posts making fun of tiktokers who were complaining about film bros or calling this trend "alarming"

Because I'm pretty sure we were saying the exact same things on here 8-10 years ago. And no one called it anti-intellectualism back then because we all knew it was about the behaviour of Film Bros™️, even if it sometimes sounded a little like we were making fun of the movies themselves. (I've been a fan of Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead since I was like 18, I'm allowed to be superficially amused by strange-sounding movie synopses.)

Just because you may have started to enjoy the occasional foreign or obscure movie since then ... I mean look at me. I say this as someone whose goddamn Tumblr avatar is currently a famous Chinese auteur

We are not film bros and the film bros wouldn't like us.

Do you think the kids on TikTok are talking about anyone who watches foreign movies or doesn't like Marvel, rather than a specific flavour of Annoying Dude that I thought we were all familiar with?

To be fair, I'm hardly following the same set of people as I was 8-10 years ago. Maybe some of y'all are truly oblivious to the existence of such individuals. And I'm sure some of the kids are in fact just making fun of bizarre movie synopses, but that's because they're kids and you probably went through a phase where you would have done the same. In fact, like I pointed out above, you can do that while having a favourite odd movie of your own without even being a hypocrite because sometimes the concept just sounds funny when encountered unexpectedly okay.

It's not anti-intellectualism, it's called being young. Except when it's actually a valid criticism of snobbery (often coupled with misogyny). Smh

Is the way people engage with media changing for the worse? Maybe! Probably. It certainly seems to be, thanks to social media and streaming and certain megacorporations.

Kind of unrelated to the topic of film bros tho tbh. And I swear the text in one of those TikToks was almost word for word identical to something I read on here ca. 2013, so the framing of an alarming new trend was the most bewildering part.

#i am so sorry but one aspect of this makes me genuinely uncomfortable tbh #it's not anti-fascist to ''combat anti-intellectualism'' in this way just because fascism tends to be anti-intellectual #because fascists ... also ... love to do the ''kids these days don't know how to appreciate True Art anymore'' thing #like that's. that's not much better even if you don't mean it that way #the guy with the greek statue avatar who made that twitter thread about contemporary architecture lacking beauty was uh #i forget what *exactly* his thing turned out to be or if anyone figured that out for sure but his account was full of red flags #and so was the thread itself. even i noticed that although i thought i was bad at this??#in any case I've had ENOUGH of supposed attempts at combating anti-intellectualism that come too close to looking like elitism again #but I'm still sorry for inflicting this post on you #¯\_(ツ)_/¯#;

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dragongirlteeth · 2 years

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Nothing makes me more angry than seeing people get taken in by surface level takes about the problem with capitalism made by a fascist account which then uses that anger they stir up to spread just about every fascist talking point under the sun.

Fucking hell people, think a little critically even if initially it seems like something you agree with.

#yes this is about that architecture post #I've seen so many people reblogging it with uncritical takes #and it just makes me want so scream #because op is a MASSIVE FUCKING FASCIST

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yellow-yarrow · 2 years

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not this cryptofascist post being on my dash today 3 times

the post ends with "with minimalism, it seems like we have ran out of things to say' 1. not true 2. im glad some building are not forcing narratives on me

#oh im sure 'culturaltutor' who follows fascists on twitter has something meaningful to say about modern architecture

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singeratlarge · 4 days

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STORY + SONG OF THE WEEK: “Fascist Architecture”https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/fascist-architecture ...A song about the politics of the ego and the soul. This recording was produced by Jonny Vitus and made in an old pasta factory in North Beach, San Francisco, in the same neighborhood as Beat Generation coffee houses and spots where they filmed “Dirty Harry” movies. The song was written by (San Francisco resident and my neighbor) Bruce Cockburn. His arrangement was in an urban folk style. I translated it after my bike messenger experiences on the sky-scrapered streets of San Francisco, punk-ing up the tempo and arrangement with a nod to The Alarm and the first Pretenders album.

Cockburn described the song as…“Bombastic, exaggeratedly heroic… overpowering, cold, and makes you think of the baby sacrificing scenes in biblical movies. Sometimes we build structures like this in our own minds...The image 'fascist architecture' came from Italy…built during Mussolini's period…a particular style where the buildings are larger that life and what is supposed to celebrate the greatness of humanity actually dwarfs humanity…it makes you feel tiny and helpless next to it, and everybody hates that stuff. It seemed to me a suitable image for the things in ourselves, the structures we build that are built on false expectations or pretenses…the things we pretend to ourselves. Then when some catastrophe comes your way, like a marriage breaking up or some other thing, those things crack and you get glimpses through them, the light comes through... It's not a comfortable thing."—from the publication CLOSER TO THE LIGHT by Paul Zollo, 1994.https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/fascist-architecture

#fascist #architecture #brucecockburn #johnnyjblair #jonnyvitus #jonnyv #sanfrancisco #northbeach #spaghettifactory #clinteastwood #dirtyharry #thealarm #pretenders #mussolini #punkrock #newwaverock

#SoundCloud #music #Johnny J Blair #fascist #architecture #Bruce Cockburn #San Francisco #North Beach #Dirty Harry #The Alarm #Pretenders #Mussolini #punk rock #New Wave

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asterroth · 4 months

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Im thinking too hard about what makes research research and it’s killing me. How much own analysis is expected? How much conjecture is allowed? Do i have to substantiate every claim with a citation? How do write essay

#i keep writing my own understanding of a topic from reading multiple sources and im struck with like. oh. do i have to cite this #and im also overusing quotes #and im also taking decent portions of my writing from other sources like not in a deliberately plagiarist kind of way #but in a ‘they covered everything very well and id like to use some of their writing structure’ kind of way #Like if i want to cover the evolution from fascist architecture to modernism and another source used some great ideas and examples #Can i lift some of that and also mix in some other stuff? or am i still plagiarizing?#i need hbomb’s opinion

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carcharodontosaurus-enthusiast · 1 year

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liking classical architecture is really hard, because you’ll be like “hey here’s a pretty building we should building more like this “ and then a weirdo with a greek statue profile pic will come out of the woodwork blame immigration for the downfall of society

#architecture #i just want to like pretty buildings why must every historical subject be fucking crawling with fascists

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lunocura · 2 years

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Ah, yes, I agree with you that modern architecture strips buildings from all their beauty

*3 posts later*

You want to do WHAT to muslims

#seriously #why is the architecture to fascist pipeline a thing #i just want pretty buildings

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marzipanandminutiae · 1 year

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“glorification of an imagined unified Western Traditional Culture as the single objective best culture is a fascist red flag” and “a lot of modern vernacular architecture is boring, actively harmful to the mental health of people who live around it, destroying older buildings that had more personality, and shoddily built + as bland as possible for the ever profit-focused needs of capitalism” are concepts that can coexist

like. yes, be wary of Roman Statue Profile Pics decrying “modernity” on Twitter, but the idea that IKEAfying the world is somehow Progressive and if you don’t like it you MUST be far-right is just. bizarre

#architecture #history #also these styles destroy non-western traditional architecture too. you know that right?#a blocky glass tower doesn't look like a Japanese house or pueblo or a crenellated Ethiopian palace #if someone were to build a Mughal architecture-inspired apartment building here in Boston I'd be like 'AMAZING'#ANY architecture with personality is the opposite of Capitalist Hellscape Chic #I just often use Victorian and Georgian buildings as examples because. that's what's around me and what my background is in

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fatehbaz · 4 months

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hi! SUPER interesting excerpt on ants and empire; adding it to my reading list. have you ever read "mosquito empires," by john mcneill?

Yea, I've read it. (Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914, basically about influence of environment and specifically insect-borne disease on colonial/imperial projects. Kinda brings to mind Centering Animals in Latin American History [Few and Tortorici, 2013] and the exploration of the centrality of ecology/plants to colonialism in Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World [Schiebinger, 2007].)

If you're interested: So, in the article we're discussing, Rohan Deb Roy shows how Victorian/Edwardian British scientists, naturalists, academics, administrators, etc., used language/rhetoric to reinforce colonialism while characterizing insects, especially termites in India and elsewhere in the tropics, as "Goths"; "arch scourge of humanity"; "blight of learning"; "destroying hordes"; and "the foe of civilization". [Rohan Deb Roy. “White ants, empire, and entomo-politics in South Asia.” The Historical Journal. October 2019.] He explores how academic and pop-sci literature in the US and Britain participated in racist dehumanization of non-European people by characterizing them as "uncivilized", as insects/animals. (This sort of stuff is summarized by Neel Ahuja, describing interplay of race, gender, class, imperialism, disease/health, anthropomorphism. See Ahuja's “Postcolonial Critique in a Multispecies World.”)

In a different 2018 article on "decolonizing science," Deb Roy also moves closer to the issue of mosquitoes, disease, hygiene, etc. explored in Mosquito Empires. Deb Roy writes: 'Sir Ronald Ross had just returned from an expedition to Sierra Leone. The British doctor had been leading efforts to tackle the malaria that so often killed English colonists in the country, and in December 1899 he gave a lecture to the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce [...]. [H]e argued that "in the coming century, the success of imperialism will depend largely upon success with the microscope."''

Deb Roy also writes elsewhere about "nonhuman empire" and how Empire/colonialism brutalizes, conscripts, employs, narrates other-than-human creatures. See his book Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909 (published 2017).

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Like Rohan Deb Roy, Jonathan Saha is another scholar with a similar focus (relationship of other-than-human creatures with British Empire's projects in Asia). Among his articles: "Accumulations and Cascades: Burmese Elephants and the Ecological Impact of British Imperialism." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 2022. /// “Colonizing elephants: animal agency, undead capital and imperial science in British Burma.” BJHS Themes. British Society for the History of Science. 2017. /// "Among the Beasts of Burma: Animals and the Politics of Colonial Sensibilities, c. 1840-1940." Journal of Social History. 2015. /// And his book Colonizing Animals: Interspecies Empire in Myanmar (published 2021).

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Related spirit/focus. If you liked the termite/India excerpt, you might enjoy checking out this similar exploration of political/imperial imagery of bugs a bit later in the twentieth century: Fahim Amir. “Cloudy Swords” e-flux Journal Issue #115. February 2021.

Amir explores not only insect imagery, specifically caricatures of termites in discourse about civilization (like the Deb Roy article about termites in India), but Amir also explores the mosquito/disease aspect invoked by your message (Mosquito Empires) by discussing racially segregated city planning and anti-mosquito architecture in British West Africa and Belgian Congo, as well as anti-mosquito campaigns of fascist Italy and the ascendant US empire. German cities began experiencing a non-native termite infestation problem shortly after German forces participated in violent suppression of resistance in colonial Africa. Meanwhile, during anti-mosquito campaigns in the Panama Canal zone, US authorities imposed forced medical testing of women suspected of carrying disease. Article features interesting statements like: 'The history of the struggle against the [...] mosquito reads like the history of capitalism in the twentieth century: after imperial, colonial, and nationalistic periods of combatting mosquitoes, we are now in the NGO phase, characterized by shrinking [...] health care budgets, privatization [...].' I've shared/posted excerpts before, which I introduce with my added summary of some of the insect-related imagery: “Thousands of tiny Bakunins”. Insects "colonize the colonizers". The German Empire fights bugs. Fascist ants, communist termites, and the “collectivism of shit-eating”. Insects speak, scream, and “go on rampage”.

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In that Deb Roy article, there is a section where we see that some Victorian writers pontificated on how "ants have colonies and they're quite hard workers, just like us!" or "bugs have their own imperium/domain, like us!" So that bugs can be both reviled and also admired. On a similar note, in the popular imagination, about anthropomorphism of Victorian bugs, and the "celebrated" "industriousness" and "cleverness" of spiders, there is: Claire Charlotte McKechnie. “Spiders, Horror, and Animal Others in Late Victorian Empire Fiction.” Journal of Victorian Culture. December 2012. She also addresses how Victorian literature uses natural science and science fiction to process anxiety about imperialism. This British/Victorian excitement at encountering "exotic" creatures of Empire, and popular discourse which engaged in anthropormorphism, is explored by Eileen Crist's Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind and O'Connor's The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856.

Related anthologies include a look at other-than-humans in literature and popular discourse: Gothic Animals: Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out (Heholt and Edmunson, 2020). There are a few studies/scholars which look specifically at "monstrous plants" in the Victorian imagination. Anxiety about gender and imperialism produced caricatures of woman as exotic anthropomorphic plants, as in: “Murderous plants: Victorian Gothic, Darwin and modern insights into vegetable carnivory" (Chase et al., Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2009). Special mention for the work of Anna Boswell, which explores the British anxiety about imperialism reflected in their relationships with and perceptions of "strange" creatures and "alien" ecosystems, especially in Aotearoa. (Check out her “Anamorphic Ecology, or the Return of the Possum.” Transformations. 2018.)

And then bridging the Victorian anthropomorphism of bugs with twentieth-century hygiene campaigns, exploring "domestic sanitation" there is: David Hollingshead. “Women, insects, modernity: American domestic ecologies in the late nineteenth century.” Feminist Modernist Studies. August 2020. (About the cultural/social pressure to protect "the home" from bugs, disease, and "invasion".)

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In fields like geography, history of science, etc., much has been said/written about how botany was the key imperial science/field, and there is the classic quintessential tale of the British pursuit of cinchona from Latin America, to treat mosquito-borne disease among its colonial administrators in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. In other words: Colonialism, insects, plants in the West Indies shaped and influenced Empire and ecosystems in the East Indies, and vice versa. One overview of this issue from Early Modern era through the Edwardian era, focused on Britain and cinchona: Zaheer Baber. "The Plants of Empire: Botanic Gardens, Colonial Power and Botanical Knowledge." May 2016. Elizabeth DeLoughrey and other scholars of the Caribbean, "the postcolonial," revolutionary Black Atlantic, etc. have written about how plantation slavery in the Caribbean provided a sort of bounded laboratory space. (See Britt Rusert's "Plantation Ecologies: The Experiential Plantation [...].") The argument is that plantations were already of course a sort of botanical laboratory for naturalizing and cultivating valuable commodity plants, but they were also laboratories to observe disease spread and to practice containment/surveillance of slaves and laborers. See also Chakrabarti's Bacteriology in British India: laboratory medicine and the tropics (2012). Sharae Deckard looks at natural history in imperial/colonial imagination and discourse (especially involving the Caribbean, plantations, the sea, and the tropics) looking at "the ecogothic/eco-Gothic", Edenic "nature", monstrous creatures, exoticism, etc. Kinda like Grove's discussion of "tropical Edens" in the colonial imagination of Green Imperialism.

Dante Furioso's article "Sanitary Imperialism" (from e-flux's Sick Architecture series) provides a summary of US entomology and anti-mosquito campaigns in the Caribbean, and how "US imperial concepts about the tropics" and racist pathologization helped influence anti-mosquito campaigns that imposed racial segregation in the midst of hard labor, gendered violence, and surveillance in the Panama Canal zone. A similar look at manipulation of mosquito-borne disease in building empire: Gregg Mitman. “Forgotten Paths of Empire: Ecology, Disease, and Commerce in the Making of Liberia’s Plantation Economy.” Environmental History. 2017. (Basically, some prominent medical schools/departments evolved directly out of US military occupation and industrial plantations of fruit/rubber/sugar corporations; faculty were employed sometimes simultaneously by fruit companies, the military, and academic institutions.) This issue is also addressed by Pratik Chakrabarti in Medicine and Empire, 1600-1960 (2014).

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Meanwhile, there are some other studies that use non-human creatures (like a mosquito) to frame imperialism. Some other stuff that comes to mind about multispecies relationships to empire:

Lawrence H. Kessler. “Entomology and Empire: Settler Colonial Science and the Campaign for Hawaiian Annexation.” Arcadia (Spring 2017)

No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic (Keith Pluymers)

Archie Davies. "The racial division of nature: Making land in Recife". Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Volume 46, Issue 2, pp. 270-283. November 2020.

Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans (Urmi Engineer Willoughby, 2017)

Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World (Aro Velmet, 2022)

Tom Brooking and Eric Pawson. “Silences of Grass: Retrieving the Role of Pasture Plants in the Development of New Zealand and the British Empire.” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. August 2007.

Under Osman's Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History (Alan Mikhail)

The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800-1900 (Rebecca J.H. Woods, 2017)

Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880-1914 (Kristen Hussey, 2021)

Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire (Kirsten Greer, 2020)

Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa: The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria (Saheed Aderinto, 2022)

Imperial Creatures: Humans and Other Animals in Colonial Singapore, 1819-1942 (Timothy P. Barnard, 2019)

Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890-1950 (Jeannie N. Shinozuka)

#ecology #bugs #multispecies #landscape #indigenous #haunted #temporal #colonial #imperial #british entomology in india #mosquitoes #carceral #tidalectics #intimacies of four continents #carceral geography #pathologization

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40ouncesandamule · 1 year

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I have come to the realization that architecture and the built environment is one of the more common ways that people in "the west" first begin to consciously feel alienation which is why the fascists have seized on it. A person is coerced to exist dominated by social control which is never used to protect them. A person is coerced to live and work and die in ugly places, places which have been designed to optimize return on investment and serve capital as opposed to being designed for people to live comfortably and happily. The average person comes to hate this arrangement and before they can articulate this dissatisfaction as a desire for greater social ownership and expanded democratic rule (as opposed to rule by capital), the right is there to hand them a much easier to digest narrative. Instead of the person coming to understand that they are under the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and that freedom from this dictatorship requires overthrowing the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, the right is able to construct a narrative in which a "cabal" of "elite" have deviated from "tradition" and that if we "RETVRN TO TRADITION" then the alienation caused by the contradictions of capital will disappear.

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cosmicjoke · 1 month

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Okay, so, I just got an ask in my inbox from someone bitching at me for "defending" Erwin Rommel, the German general from WWII that some people think Erwin is based on or inspired by. They said "I can't believe you would defend Erwin Rommel because of a mid anime. He turned against Hitler in 1944 because the war was turning, not because he was against Fascism". Needless to say, I'm not going to play into this morons game by actually directly answering them, but I do want to make a point which is important to understand.

Because here's the thing that idiots like this don't get. The morons like this, that want to accuse AoT of being antisemitic, Fascist propaganda, they say all this shit while laboring under the belief that the Eldian's are "meant to be Jews", and because they can turn into Titans, Isayama was making some nefarious insinuation that Jews are actually monsters.

This is so stupid, it shouldn't even need to be addressed, but I will anyway, because some fuckers need to get their heads out of their assess.

First of all, nothing in AoT is meant to be a direct or 1 to 1 allegory of anything. It's an amalgamation of different historical events all meshed together. Second of all, none of these people seem to want to acknowledge that the closest group the Eldian's resemble, in reality, are the Germans, not Jews. It doesn't even make sense for Eldian's to be seen as Jewish, or as a stand in for Jews, because everything about them, from their history, to their names, to their culture and architecture and religious beliefs, resembles German and Germanic culture and history, including the German's historically warmongering ways. Remember, the Eldian's started off as a warring, Viking-like tribe of people who went around conquering other tribes of people. And the arc of the Yeagerist's eventually coming to power most resembles how the Nazi's eventually came to power, through the German people being horrifically oppressed and punished for the outbreak of WWI through the Treaties of Versailles, something we see reflected in how the Eldian's were eventually punished for their warmongering, cut off from the rest of the world, isolated and stolen from. Even if Erwin Smith is inspired by or based on Erwin Rommel, how does that in any way, shape or form indicate some Fascist or antisemitic agenda on Isayama's part, when Erwin Smith clearly isn't meant to be Jewish, but in every way resembles a German man? Let's suppose he is inspired by Rommel, again, it only supports the likelihood that the Eldian's are meant to be German, not Jews, and so the entire crux of these fucking moron's argument, that Isayama is being "antisemitic" because the Eldian's can turn into titans, completely falls apart, when the people that can turn into titans aren't meant to be seen as Jews, but clearly more obviously resemble Germans. Further, Erwin Smith is a fictional character. Just because he was inspired by a real-life historical figure doesn't mean he's meant to be that historical figure. While Erwin may share some superficial aspects with Rommel, Erwin is still a fictional character, and possesses multiple characteristics that differ immensely from Rommel in every way. People don't seem to understand that inspiration for a character or theme doesn't mean the character or theme is meant to be a direct representation of the thing that inspired it.

Further, one of the main themes of AoT is that we all have the capability to be monsters. Eldian's being able to turn into titans isn't meant to be seen as some sort of condemnation of their race. We aren't meant to hate them for this. The entire idea is that people, all people, can be monsters, their having some weird, magical ability to turn into titans having nothing to do with it. The Marleyans were just as monstrous as the Eldian's ever were in the way they treated people, in the things they did, in the agenda they pushed, and in their warmongering. They couldn't turn into titans, but they were every bit as bad, every bit as capable of evil. Again, the ability to turn into a titan isn't ever meant as any sort of statement as to the nature of the Eldian people. It's human nature itself that is framed as the real monster. It's also important to note that the Eldian's turning into titans wasn't ever something they wanted or which they chose to do. They were forced to turn into titans, either by the former rulers of the Eldian Empire, or by the Marleyan government, both of which utilized them as weapons against their wills. The Eldian people subjected to this were never meant to be seen as monsters, but as victims. We were always meant to feel sympathetic toward them for being used and forced against their wills to do something they had no say in or wish for. We see their persecution clearly framed as a bad thing, a very bad thing, which ultimately leads to tragedy and untold destruction and death. We see the prejudice against them clearly framed to be something wrong and evil, the very thing which ultimately leads to Marley's own demise. Again, if you want to make some sort of direct comparison to real, historical events, this all clearly resembles what happened with Germany and the rest of Europe after WWI, with the German people being convinced that they were being denied their god given destiny and right to exist through the extreme punishment exacted upon them by the rest of the world. Nazism and the National Socialist Party took hold because the German people felt deeply wronged and persecuted, which they were. The entire country was practically destroyed by the harsh sanctions and restrictions placed on it. The reaction from the German people in real life is something we see reflected in the Yeagerist's eventually coming to power and exacting their "revenge" on the rest of the world through their support of Eren. The Eldian's were, just like the German people, unduly punished and made to suffer for the wrongs of their past government and rulers, and eventually grew resentful and longing for the days when they saw themselves as glorious and powerful. We see this reflected earlier on in the story with Grisha Yeager's extremism and his belief that the Eldian empire should be restored, etc... His and the Yeagerists desire to take back what was once "theirs", spurred on by excessive punishment and cruelty and persecution from the rest of the world. This, again, all resembles Germany, and what happened with Germany following WWI, with the rise of Nazism and Hitler. How people can miss this is beyond me. They're so fucking stupid, and ignorant to boot. The rise of the Yagerists was never meant to be seen as a good thing. I don't care how many dumb fuck Yeagerists there are in the fandom, or how many morons try to make excuses for Eren's actions, the story plainly frames his actions and the Yeagerists taking over Paradis as a horrifically bad thing, one which leads to unspeakable tragedy and destruction, just like the rise of Nazism did in real life. Anyone who's read or watched AoT would know this. But then, I think most of the people that actually believe AoT is some sort of fascist, antisemitic propaganda haven't ever actually read or watched the manga or anime. If they did, assuming they have any, actual functioning brain cells, they would know how absurd and nonsensical such a belief is.

And once more, I reiterate, nothing in AoT is meant to be seen or taken as a direct or 1 to 1 allegory for any, real life historical event. Isayama was clearly inspired by multiple sources and multiple parts of history when he crafted his story. But it's still a work of original fiction, which is it's own thing, and which can't be taken as some sort of political or ideological statement on anything in real life. It's a self-contained work of art which, while it may have some resemblance to real life events, isn't and never was meant to be seen as an allegory for those events.

Anyway, that's all I'm going to say on this matter.

#attack on titan #shin #shingkei no kyojin #Hajime #meta #commentary #analysis

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