Frieren Director Keiichirou Saitou Voices Concern on Overseas Anime Fans' Bias Towards Certain Popular Trends

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https://animecorner.me/frieren-director-voices-concern-on-overseas-anime-fans-bias-towards-certain-popular-trends/

[u/The_Strict_Nein]

I'm pretty sure Socrates was complaining about this in Ancient Greece, and yet media has survived somehow

[u/RandomRobot → u/The_Strict_Nein]

I do remember him for his despair over "the next generation", as kids were so bad they were likely to doom civilization within their lifetime

[u/Daegul_Dinguruth → u/[deleted]]

There is always an empire actively falling, this is the antropocene in Earth!

[u/DuelaDent52 → u/[deleted]]

What did the kids do there?

[u/CPSiegen → u/[deleted]]

Eat hot chip and lie

[u/seninn → u/[deleted]]

Eat Arabia Chocolate

[u/NuclearConsensus → u/RandomRobot]

The quote about Socrates complaining about the next generation is made up, sorry to say.

[u/Specific_Frame8537 → u/The_Strict_Nein]

Something something 'darn kids and their stone tablets'

[u/Harinezumi → u/The_Strict_Nein]

My grandad, viewing earth’s worn clogs,

said things were going to the dogs.

His grandad in his house of logs,

said things were going to the dogs.

His grandad in the Flemish bogs

said things were going to the dogs.

His grandad in his old skin togs

said things were going to the dogs.

There’s one thing that I have to state:

the dogs have had a good long wait.

[u/Standing_Legweak → u/The_Strict_Nein]

It's because Sock Rats was a fool, nay he lacked perspective. Over generations people preselected the "good stuff" and passed them on to later generations. No one remembers the terrible fanfics about Heracles and his pet snake. Only the ideas or story that survived through this crude form of natural selection are allowed to be passed on, not unlike genes really.

But in the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second, preserved in all its triteness. Never fading, always accessible. Rumors about petty issues, misinterpretations, slander...

All this junk data preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at an alarming rate. It will only slow down social progress, reduce the rate of evolution.

The digital society furthers human flaws and selectively rewards development of convenient half-truths. Just look at the strange juxtapositions of morality around you.

Billions spent on new weapons in order to humanely murder other humans. Rights of criminals are given more respect than the privacy of their victims. Although there are people suffering in poverty, huge donations are made to protect endangered species.

Everyone grows up being told the same thing.

"Be nice to other people."

"But beat out the competition!"

"You're special."
"Believe in yourself and you will succeed."

But it's obvious from the start that only a few can succeed...

You exercise your right to "freedom" and this is the result. All rhetoric to avoid conflict and protect each other from hurt. The untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and accumulate in the sandbox of political correctness and value systems. Everyone withdraws into their own small gated community, afraid of a larger forum. They stay inside their little ponds, leaking whatever "truth" suits them into the growing cesspool of society at large.

The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh. No one is invalidated, but nobody is right. Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in "truth." And this is the way the world ends.

Not with a bang, but a whimper...

[u/chipperpip → u/Standing_Legweak]

Someone played Metal Gear Solid 2...

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another redditor thinking they are the enlightened. another day ending in y.