after japan was humiliated in wwii they sought to weaken the west through their desires. cars, appliances, media players, games, and anime. they test their weapons locally on their own people to ensure effectivity, and once potency is high enough they broadcast it globally.
anime is the enemy, denpa bros. it lowers birth rates. decreases productivity. promotes hedonism. like Oppenheimer, Miyazaki regretted his role in the creation of his weapon.
die hard was trying to whistleblow about the threat "we're flexible, pearl harbor didn't work out, so we got you with tape decks."
anyway. i dunno what to watch. jellyfish anime this season looks ok. but idk.

lowers birth rates
decreases productivity
promotes hedonism

but denpanon those things are based.

based on what? certianly not the "rock" of truth jesus christ or as he is known these days Madoka Kaname. but I guess we livin in Homura's world now.

Did you know the CIA put anime into black communities nationwide? Undoubtedly their largest psychological operation to date.

If it decreases productivity and promotes hedonism how come the Japanese work 18 hours a day?

>>5
if space doesn't have any air how can astronauts breathe?

japan codeveloped a mirror image mindset along with anime in their brutal work ethic. When combined the hedonistic release tempers the brutality of the productivity ethos. when anime becomes too powerful they had to evolve the work ethic programming, this created a mindset so productivity focused that there are casualities of course. And on the other side, those who were resistant to the work ethic programming but not to the anime contagion become dameningen.
since anime is tempered only by the protestant work ethic in the west which is of a much lower power level and many people are resistant to it, anime has far more potential to spread.

i wish anime was as cool as youre making it out to be

/pol/ gives you brainrot. Don't use pol.

lowers birth rates
decreases productivity
promotes hedonism

these are all positive tho? our system cant support the people who are already alive, so we ought to be measured about adding more. The valorization of "productivity" is capitalist propaganda designed to keep the working class enslaved by wage labor. And Hedonism, which just means prioritization of pleasure, that is not outwardly harmful is just expression of personal freedom. Anti-fun puritanism is a collar around the necks of anyone deemed too abnormal by oppressive societal standards. Enjoying yourself and indulging is always good, as long as you're not self-harming or other-harming. Sex, drugs, masturbation, tasty food & drinks, movies, video games, and anime, are things we do to enrich our lives. Do not fall prey to the mindset of assimilation hocked by traditionalist puritans. ☮ & ⼼

>>9
The issue with hedonism is that if a large enough portion of a society engage in it as their primary pastime then society could stagnate and if left long enough start to decay. It feels to me at least that we are at a point at the moment where hedonism is perceived and dare I say pushed as something that we all should be striving for. At least that's how it seems when thinking about general society online. It takes a lot of people to keep societies of all sizes ticking over, and it takes a dedicated effort on many fronts to develop them in a positive way. The fact that there are people out there who are maintaining the power infrastructure right now allows us to communicate. If they sat in a dim bedroom watching loli for months on end, wanking, then the world would be a slightly worse place by most metrics.

I'm not against junkies, wankers and people who visit Reddit, but we can't have everybody doing that.

>>10
while what you are saying isn't wrong, it's also missing the bigger picture. we all want to think this is some kind of immersive drama based experience. but we are just the computation of envrionment data in a population score for a big game of RISK.

Sage in all fields

>>10
Then just wait. Once the infrastructure for people to watch loli all the time falls apart then people will stop watching loli all the time to diligently work to set up that infracture to watch loli all the time all over again. And so on and so forth.

>>10
If everyone was a complete hedonist then nothing would get done sure but good luck convincing everyone in the world to become a hedonist, within every society as long as there isn't overwhelming repression there will be lots of diversity, why does a value need to be applied to everyone equally? that's just not practical.

As for hedonism itself there are plenty of ways to motivate people to do difficult stuff and provide pleasure as a reward, instead of punishment as a threat. Rather than saying that if you don't work you won't eat and therefore die you can provide pleasures either from the outside (money, power etc) or from the inside (convince people working makes them feel useful and therefore doing it will make them feel good). We could have a society that is very similar to our own based almost solely on hedonism, and that just goes to show that hedonism really isn't anything special in the first place and if you want to break society you need something different, so don't worry about it.

You are absolutely right about animes role in Japans soft power grab and long term plan except for the part where your perspective focuses on how it distracts from puritanical living. Thats kind of a weird place to take this. The point of Japans long term plan for soft power overall is to have sway over world economics and politics and control over its people. But freedom from that control isn't going to be achieved through puritanism, that just plays into the hand of the Japanese LDP (conservative party). The point of animes roll in this is to market us our own artistic liberation and control markets that inspire individualism, to keep people distracted. Kawaii was a cultural shift that originally belonged to rebelious feminist movements, so Japan sought to control and market moe, creating little need for independently lead artistic movements or art made without corporate interest in mind. This isn't the fault of any individual Japanese artists but support what you think is good and keep an eye on the indie/doujin spaces for the really good, obscure stuff.