Comments: Anime, Fanservice, X Men, & Violent Protests

Answering your comments about anime fanservice and aesthetics; X-Men, politics, discrimination, and Magneto's use of violence as a revolutionary tactic vs Professor X's liberalism. Also, I witter about Dragonball GT.

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[kurtfoster]

please make a formal argument to defend GT. it would be amazing to see the hell fire in the comments section

[terribletallrus]

It's great that you interact with your followers this way. Cool stuff. :)

[thewingedcroc]

An X-men comic of a totally nonviolent, social-focused mutant resistance would be fun as hell!!!!

Nonviolence, perhaps, is ignored because it relies on socializing with humans- and that's fucking hard man just blow that shit up amirite?!

Figuring out how to convince someone to do the right thing (instead of forcing them to not have the ability to do the good OR the bad thing: violence) is such a difficult puzzle. But it doesn't mean it's impossible, just tough to crack. It''s almost a matter of faith to assume there is always a nonviolent way through a problem between people, but I think we must try as though it were true.

[jamiemitchel]

Olly, regarding your last video, (Which I loved BTW ;) why did you give such advanced authors and books, for example, Marx and Mbembe? In my experience, when people ask "what philosophers should I read to keep in touch with the world around me?" They have read little to no philosophy books and would prefer accessible introductions! Could you possibly do a redo of that video, where you give accessible introductions instead of advanced professors in critical theory? I could definitely see John Deweys "experience and education" on there, as well as Bertrand Russell's "Problems in philosophy" or his "Possible roads to freedom" maybe replace some bell hooks with Firestone or Crenshaw??

Anyway on another note, have you read these philosophers- Max Stirner, Ivan Illich, Paulo Friere, Edward Said? I'm just wondering!?

[Hecatonicosachoron]

The earliest existing (athenian) plays were definitely political. Aeschylus was deeply political - all his surviving plays have an overt political dimension.
Comedy emerged from Scoptic literature (from some merger between scoptic poems and phallic processions) so it is, historically, also deeply rooted in politics.
Arguably attempting to depoliticise art is also deeply political.

[Carltoncurtis]

Let me refine my argument: Anime is just another form of Genre Fiction. It comes with genre conventions, familiar tropes. The avengers: civil war had a whole Socratic dialogue on the utterly destructive ramifications of superhero violence but... _the movie is STILL SELLING straightforward, genre style, superhero violence anyway_ because the fans want that service. KLK may make commentary on the naked female body but it STILL is selling said female body anyway. That's just how genre fiction works. Many Anime deliver 'Fanservice' in the form of the sexually idealized female body and the ADOLESCENT male gaze that frames said image of the female body. Let me be clear, *Anime isn't selling sex outright*, anime is selling male teenage (yes, teenage, not adult) sexual fantasies. I say male teenage sexual fantasies because once you remember your 12-14 male self's sexuality then anime fanservice makes way more sense intellectually.

ie.
The impossibly perfect female bodies make sense once you remember that in adolescence, you, me, in our male gazes at that age, all idealized the female body. Humans naturally idealize the unattainable. As adult men, with wives and girlfriends, we don't idealize the female form _as much_ anymore because we've experienced it intimately and regularly. Were all intimately aware of how it looks, smells and sounds.

Same goes for the titgrabs and panty shots. That _is_ what an innocent boy, not desensitized by porn, going thru of puberty would desire sexually. As teenagers, a handful of tit would feel INCREDIBLE, but as adult men, we're gonna need way more than a handful of tit to get aroused...

In summary, I think judging fanservice ethically is silly because we are ALL biased to media that has the kind of fanservice _we like_. No human being intakes any media that does not have fanservice that appeals to them. So to judge someone for their taste in 'fanservice' whether it be panty shots, car stunts or superhero violence is just hypocritical. We all buy our own versions of fanservice. Anime fanservice does not appeal to me but this is my theory on why the fanservice _is the way it is_ in anime.

[RustyShacklefordistheman]

I stayed here after discovering you were an atheist.

I stayed here after discovering you were a leftist radical.

But you defend Dragon Ball GT. there's only so much I can take!

[MrAmateurNerd]

Keep up the great work! I just recommended you to a bunch of my friends :D

[yogsothoth]

Your point on structural violence is a good one but as a utilitarian I'd like to point out that firstly, structural violence may indirectly cause more suffering than direct violence. For example if I was opposing an oppressive government and carried out structural nonviolent resistance the government counter measures over several years and its increasing militarisation (robbing other sectors of required funding and creating an authorities atmosphere) may combine to produce more suffering than that of carrying out a coup during the early hours of one morning and being in charge and preparing to hold an election by the next day.

[SuperSpamcan]

Wow, the difference between this video's comments and last video's comments is insane.

[MaximusTCR]

I don't think people are denying the idea that all art to some degree is influenced by an artist's surroundings, including that surrounding's political landscape, when they talk about "making art political". What they mean is that some art is used by some people to make a claim about how a certain state of affairs should be when it wasn't the artist's intention to make a claim of that nature.

[cartoonhippie]

I don't know why, but the idea of trying to preserve Canadian power is hilarious to me.

[CelestiaLily]

in 2017 punching Nazis and neo-Nazis is still an act of rebellion. Erik was being an overeager twat about it, but I'm willing to draw the line closer than Charles would say is enough

[CelestiaLily]

The difference btw mutants & irl oppressed groups is they don't have nukes for arms. They're real people, scared & peacefully protesting against armed police who'll bait them into attacking as an excuse to crack down on the whole group. Having mutant powers is a huge step up in being able to fight back.

[hamonteiro]

Serious question: why doesn't this channel have more subscribers?
Why don't we - as a society - care about philosophy as much as we care about the Kardashians.? Is this a provlem that needs fixing? If ye how and by whom should that be done? Any books or articles on that?

[jmorrow]

Are you on hunger strike until you get that role that you want?

[MrJethroha]

HEY OLLY, what's your MBTI type? my guess would be INFJ, but im open to being wrong!!!

[LokrowN]

Isn't the point of fan service to please the fans despite bigger issues it could have? So of course you'd enjoy Resurrection F even with the fan service, specifically because of the fan service.

[lyadmilo]

finding out that you like anime just makes you hotter tbh

[MrPlaylistMan]

Are you talking about the recent BLM protests in the uk?

because Im not so sure if British countries have much of a leg to stand on with police brutality compared to the u.s.