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all-tsun-and-no-dere
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Pokemon is political because all art is political.
People have also demanded Naoki Urasawa apologize for posting a drawing of Abe looking pathetic while wearing a mask. It just goes to show how much Japanese creators are pressured to keep quiet and their opinions to themselves. It's why if you ask them in an interview about any political opinions expressed in their anime, they'll hem and haw and say they just wanted to tell a good story. |
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Rentwo
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I don't think that's a very healthy way to look at things in the long run if people constantly scan every piece of media they consume for political messages. If we take Sword & Shield as a political message what exactly is the takeaway? The environmentalist was the villain. He was portrayed as being in the wrong and tried to summon an ancient evil God to further his goals and had to be stopped by all the good guys banding together to take him and his people down. I don't think Game Freak is trying to say people who care about the environment are evil, or we should go out and stop people trying to help the environment or anything. It just leads to some weird places if we take it as being a political stance |
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Fluwm
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There's a world of difference between recognizing that all art is inherently political and fervently dissecting all media you consume to understand those politics. Though there is value in the latter.
The word you might be looking for is agenda. While all art is political, not all art has a deliberate political agenda. A simple still life painting is political simply for the facts of its creation: it cannot exist without an artist freed from the need to perform labor for his or her livelihood, the leisure time to produce it, and a superior economic class to imbue the painting with value. And the more complex a piece of art is, the more complex it's politics are going to be. The inherent politics of a painting of an apple are much less than say, an identical painting of an apple produced digitally. That's simply the nature of the world we live in, and propping a bucket over your head to ignore it seems among the least healthy responses a person could have. |
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