How We Stand For Nothing
料理人たちが緒山くんに観察している。
New things happening in the United States. They're incredible. Issue's that it's incredible in a lowkey evil and bad way. Scene is the Texas senate. They're trying to ban anime now. More specifically, it's a purposefully vague bill which puts anything two-dimensional that's deemed to have a lewd depiction of "child-like" characters treated with the same degree of illegality as AI generated child porn. There are a lot of issues about this, especially if you've been keeping up with the rhetoric surrounding the LGBT community when these sorts of bills come up (and notice how they're always in comfortably red states, with a large population of evangelist hicks in both the greater population AND office!). It's always a matter of "grooming" and "degeneracy" and other associated buzzwords which should immediately raise 10 red flags to the educated mind, but unfortunately you live in the United States and like half of the population is innately retarded from birth and also they're going to absolve the Department of Education which means that number is gonna go steadily up. That and "think about the children!", although that's been done to death and you've seen it a thousand times before whether or not you're 15 or 50. They did it to rotten.com, they did it (and are still trying to do it) to encryption, and now they're trying to do it to your CGDCT. One must ask where the line is drawn, but as long as a consensus of people hold extremely emotional and insecure views on a myriad topics pertaining to free expression then it's gonna keep getting pushed further back and back.
Of course, a law like this will never sniff anywhere significant on the state or federal level as it is a bigger gangrape on the First Amendment than the best of Pakistan could put up; in essence its a symbolic measure by some old Bible thumper who realized he hasn't Thought About The Children enough as a Republican who reserves the status quo, before like molesting his niece or something (shout out Le'Veon Bell). The issue is a growing bipartisan group of younger constituants who take the sides of these Evangelical politicians. In this case, autistic they/thems have come out in support of this bill in particular because of what it may do to lolicon, despite the fact that every iconic Japanese anime/manga work more than likely has some freak shit with underage characters and, if not that, is stylized in such a way which, despite characters being given an arbitrary number and being portrayed as "of age", can still be illegal as a part of this legislation. So why do they do it? Simply put: annoying people online. Zoomers come out in support of some of the most explicitly fascistic bills spearheaded by the most explicitly fascistic politicians in the most explicitly fascistic season of American politics yet because of Indonesian Blue Archive fans. One must ask why they would go so low to do such a thing, other than being autistic and having online circles composed of other equally as autistic hyenas who will tear eachother apart if it means taht they would get a semblance of piousness out of it.
i_ai_r Blog fans will be shocked to find out that the Divine Command Theory is gay and retarded. God(s) does (do) not choose that which is pious. Religious texts existed as a sort of moral framework for earlier societies to work off of so they don't ruin everything for everyone else. It was a way to lead a strong, focused way of life while finding meaning in such. It provided some solace to the idea of death. It was also used to control. It's being used to control right now. The flavor of organized religion that most of America has adopted, whether it be your weird uncle who lowkey had his brain fried doing DMT, or that guy with a Vatican flag in his username and a K-On profile picture, is fake and gay. Specifically, it is fake and gay the moment you begin to feel urged to aggressively push ideas of conformity onto people you deem "undesirable". You see it in lawmaking, you've seen it in lawmaking. This one performative bill in a beet-red state isn't the beginning, nor it will be the end. There's always been annoying fundamentalists and conservatives who fight for the wrong things to conserve under the pretense that its presence brought forth the nation's prior prosperity, when in reality it was obliterating the FUCK out of the Middle East injecting billions of hypersuperomegaprofits into the marKKKets.
The pandemic alongside global digital dependence has created a larger caste of hermit zoomers who simply do not have the sufficient cognitive development to understand why the stuff that bans the "weird" stuff could ever be bad. You could jab at their intelligence, but it's clear that neurodivergency plays a huge part in both the digital hermitage and inability to comprehend things beyond linearity. Nobody's to say if their support is a majority by any means, but to see the horseshoe theory constantly at play with the furthest limits of free expression with so called "progressives" gets so tiring after a while. They could also just be retarded.
Speaking of which, how about the right-leaning lolicons who blindly preached their support for these kinds of politicians for what are effectively the same reasons? They're arguably louder, and more than likely inspired the aforementioned group to take up the stances that they did. Then to have the nerve to complain about the zeitgeist turning contemptuous against the content they based their own personality around-- and this bill especially-- do you know who voted in these kinds of politicians? It's all so frustrating, and the moment you realize that these emotional internet politics are both 1) performative and 2) contradictory you understand not to take any of it seriously; it's hard not to view it anyways and become profoundly sad. You can see all around you that neurotic digital politics and algorithmic content delivery have made us stand for nothing. Do they even mean it? You can hypothesize that it could be a desperation for community, and I wouldn't doubt it. The saddest thing about that is that it would be one of the less dangerous things that young, isolated people would do in an attempt to feel as if they're a part of a community. Some would, as opposed to developing hobbies or healthy habits, constantly concern themselves with parasitic people in parasitic internet spaces. The mean zoomer hermit likely can't find comfort in solitude and resorts themself to this kind of humiliation.
These people are still young. There is never not time to grow. I've had plenty of time to grow myself. Fuck, I've been online my entire life and I've felt like I've lived at least 6 seperate lives and I am equally insecure about the previous one as the one before that. I'm still acquainted from a lot of people then and I pray they forget a LOT of shit I said or did 7 or 6 or 5 or 4 or 3 or 2 years ago. Or 1 year ago. Or 9 months ago. Or 6 months ago. Or 3 months ago. Sometimes I'm reminded of what I said, did, and acted and rather than being embarassed I am often just perplexed. I think I described myself then pretty well in this post. I think I'd still go back and time and shoot myself though. Jerk off to little anime girls by the way. Nobody is stopping you. Nobody will stop you. If you are in Texas you must goon. If you are in New York you must get an everything bagel with cream cheese from your local bodega and take a photo of it and dedicate it to me and also tag me. This is a command. I want that fucking bagel man. Give me that bagel.
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