from a strategic outlook the problem with polyamory is very like that of cooperatives or communes under capitalism; without a direct assault on the centres of power, you’re constantly at risk of being annihilated or absorbed by the very norms and systems you set out to escape. as such, it is imperative as a matter of pragmatic tactics, of ideological survival even, for you to sleep with other peoples’ girlfriends
now that we're coming around on Miyazaki are we going to grapple with Hideaki Anno or are you people still too busy doing trans headcanons for a meanspirited parody of Japan's "failed" masculinity to care about the fact that he got his fame making a work where he makes a counterfactual culture history where Japan wins the Second Pacific War out of his misplaced anger at Japan's imperialist loss?
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.
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