• KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    It’s fantasy for kids. There are constantly people getting hit in the head, with no sign of brain damage. In real life, Batman would be crippling people constantly, and he would die every week.

    Are the Smurfs an Anarchist commune? Is the Federation in Star Trek space Communism? You can’t give them labels from political science in the real world because they are fantasy. They literally have different laws of physics.

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      9 months ago

      It’s fantasy for kids.

      You think it’s kids being enthralled by the hyper-violence of all these super-creep movies?

      There are constantly people getting hit in the head

      So they minimize the real-world effects of actual violence? Gee - do you perhaps think that a society that is entirely dependent on hierarchical violence to maintain the power and privilege of those at the top might be incentivized to gloss over the violence inflicted on those at the bottom?

      You can’t give them labels from political science in the real world because they are fantasy.

      There is no constructed universe that isn’t based on real-world political thought. None whatsoever. The political subtext that shapes them is no less real that which you can find in the real world.