Japan is like if you combined 1950s white America with one of Ted’s nightmares :a-guy:
I just think Torii gates are cool lookin :shrug-outta-hecks:
my unhinged zizek take would be that japan allows other first world-ers to project their supremacist beliefs onto a target that denies them the outlet of shame. the way dorks from the third world look at the US is the way that dorks from the first world look at japan. also they based their culture off the br*tish what the fuck :visible-disgust:
it feels reductive to say that appreciating a country’s history and culture is weird because they have a shitty government tbh. i like the architecture, the woodcuts and traditional paintings, a lot of the movies, etc, doesn’t mean i endore the LDP or the whole ethnostate thing
nah not just a shitty government. a pretty fucked up culture that people in most countries would see as fascistic if they were forced to live under it and didn’t grow up with it.
its obviously true that there are a ton of shitty things about japan. that doesnt mean that high and low is a bad movie, or that hokusai was a bad artist, or whatever. if you find a culture out there that doesnt have shitty elements please let me know because as far as im aware they don’t exist and i am going to continue to enjoy art produced by those cultures because i don’t want my life to be dour and joyless.
enjoy it by all means! i enjoyed avatar, doesn’t mean i still don’t say Death To America every day of my life.
Idk a lot of places are fucked up. In India we have the caste discrimination still going on even though it supposedly was dismantled decades ago. Plus tons of religious violence, sexual violence, overwork, colorism, etc. There’s a lot of problems
But if you enjoy it please engage with Indian culture! I don’t see how that makes of these problems worse
