I’ve always been a bit puzzled at that one, given that the protagonist spends most of the storyline designing and building warplanes. He’s apparently motivated purely by the love of flight, but consequences are never directly addressed, except for maybe at the end when he comments on how they all got destroyed. Is he wilfully oblivious? Is he on board with Japanese aggression? Is this a comment on the “just doing my job” people involved in any war effort?
I’ve always viewed it as somewhere between “willfully oblivious”, “on board with the war”, and “his love of flight”.
Warner Von Braun built the V2 (among others) rocket for the Nazis, but he always claimed it was because of his love of space flight. And being German he was utilizing the resources he had available to him. Now, that was also while he was being shielded from the majority of questions by the US government so who knows what the real truth was. IMO I believe that he was driven by his desire to see space travel, and the rest of the “bad parts” (slave labour and building terror weapons for the Nazis) could be explained with just good ol fashion racism that was en vouge in the 30s-70s.
Satire is truly dead, buried, dug up, smacked around a bit, shot in the face for good measure, buried, dug up again, had a shit taken on it, and buried upside-down.
It’s not satire. It’s overt propaganda. Problem is, it’s lazy propaganda! Do you think people who truly love Ghibli would be swayed by this? Who does this appeal to? It’s nonsense.
That said: let them keep doing it. Allow them to continue shootinh themselves in the foot.
I think OP meant irony. The irony that we’re at a point where zionist/imperialist militaries are communicating on a nazi-owned platform using stolen AI art styles about war when the style was developed by someone vehemently against war/imperialism in their creations. The irony is palpable on each and every level.
Well, Nazis do have a tendency of appropriating and mangling countless cultures to fill the void left from their humanity, I would say that extends to those who openly admit ethnic cleansing
He’s offered a pardon for being a military deserter and this is his reply:
Miyazaki fucking hates war.
Fuck, the entire premise of “Howl’s Moving Castle” is how war turns people into literal monsters!!!
Miyazaki famously was not present to accept an award for “Spirited Away” because of George W’s war policies!!!
FOR FUCKS SAKE!!!
How does The Wind Rises fit into this?
Plot spoilers
I’ve always been a bit puzzled at that one, given that the protagonist spends most of the storyline designing and building warplanes. He’s apparently motivated purely by the love of flight, but consequences are never directly addressed, except for maybe at the end when he comments on how they all got destroyed. Is he wilfully oblivious? Is he on board with Japanese aggression? Is this a comment on the “just doing my job” people involved in any war effort?
I’ve always viewed it as somewhere between “willfully oblivious”, “on board with the war”, and “his love of flight”.
Warner Von Braun built the V2 (among others) rocket for the Nazis, but he always claimed it was because of his love of space flight. And being German he was utilizing the resources he had available to him. Now, that was also while he was being shielded from the majority of questions by the US government so who knows what the real truth was. IMO I believe that he was driven by his desire to see space travel, and the rest of the “bad parts” (slave labour and building terror weapons for the Nazis) could be explained with just good ol fashion racism that was en vouge in the 30s-70s.
He also expressly stated his hatred for AI art.
Satire is truly dead, buried, dug up, smacked around a bit, shot in the face for good measure, buried, dug up again, had a shit taken on it, and buried upside-down.
It’s not satire. It’s overt propaganda. Problem is, it’s lazy propaganda! Do you think people who truly love Ghibli would be swayed by this? Who does this appeal to? It’s nonsense.
That said: let them keep doing it. Allow them to continue shootinh themselves in the foot.
the fake nerds of silicon valley of course
The cheap seats. The know nothing public.
I think OP meant irony. The irony that we’re at a point where zionist/imperialist militaries are communicating on a nazi-owned platform using stolen AI art styles about war when the style was developed by someone vehemently against war/imperialism in their creations. The irony is palpable on each and every level.
Precisely, thank you
Sorry! I replied like 2 minutes after waking up. Understood you completely. My bad!
No worries!
Well, Nazis do have a tendency of appropriating and mangling countless cultures to fill the void left from their humanity, I would say that extends to those who openly admit ethnic cleansing