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Aristotle believed great art truly capable of moving peoole had to be at least a partial mirror to reality, all art is but the further the writer tries to shave off our lived reality and the more unbelievable his story gets the less emotionally impactful and grand it is. I can give Tolkien a genreshitter pass because his characters are quite realistic and I really enjoy the ideas he tries to convey through his story but ultimately if he saw what the genreshitters on this board constantly praise about escapism and art as a means to flee to another world instead of one to cope and relate to this one he would be extremely dissapointed. Escapism hurts the soul in a fundamental way but since he's british and possibly autistic I wouldn't take his views on literatuse and art particularly seriously
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I can only speak from the brazilian POV but historically speaking D&D gained popularity in the US around the same time the country was in absolute shit. We had just gotten out of a military dictatorship that heavily restricted acess to foreign media and inflation was so fucking bad we changed currencies like 3 times in less than a decade. When D&D became popular here we were already zeitgeisted into buying foreign ideas without properly adapting them or changing them in some way.
A lot of the early brazilian modernist movements spun around the idea of cultural anthrophagy or whatever you call it in english. It's the idea that all culture is inevitably somewhat assimilated into another one as they both bend and mash into each other together. Brazilian modernism wasnt supposed to be just a carbon copy of the european version but incorporate elements of brazilian living and culture to it because that's the enviroment artists here lived. It was a time of rapid adaptation and cultural outgrowth based around a latin american cultural heritage that valued its own identity and thought critically of its own culture while still romanticizing it somewhat. Since than foreign forces have tried their absolute fucking hardest to shut that line of thought down completely by just straight up making us consoooooom buttloads of american culture while trying our absolute fucking best to replicate whatever those pigs were doing at the time. We were LITERALLY forced to copy their education system, watch their shows, eat from their brands and so on during the cold war which absolutely killed any sense of patriotic endeavouring. So no, we won't have our own D&D, we will play foreign D&D and fucking enjoy it, we won't even have the grace to name our characters Pedro or Juan we will have to name them Thomas Mcson or Agatha Winston or some shit like that, people willing cuck themselves to the US nowadays and if you claim anything else other than that you will get laughed at.
I can only speak from the brazilian POV but historically speaking D&D gained popularity in the US around the same time the country was in absolute shit. We had just gotten out of a military dictatorship that heavily restricted acess to foreign media and inflation was so fucking bad we changed currencies like 3 times in less than a decade. When D&D became popular here we were already zeitgeisted into buying foreign ideas without properly adapting them or changing them in some way.
A lot of the early brazilian modernist movements spun around the idea of cultural anthrophagy or whatever you call it in english. It's the idea that all culture is inevitably somewhat assimilated into another one as they both bend and mash into each other together. Brazilian modernism wasnt supposed to be just a carbon copy of the european version but incorporate elements of brazilian living and culture to it because that's the enviroment artists here lived. It was a time of rapid adaptation and cultural outgrowth based around a latin american cultural heritage that valued its own identity and thought critically of its own culture while still romanticizing it somewhat. Since than foreign forces have tried their absolute fucking hardest to shut that line of thought down completely by just straight up making us consoooooom buttloads of american culture while trying our absolute fucking best to replicate whatever those pigs were doing at the time. We were LITERALLY forced to copy their education system, watch their shows, eat from their brands and so on during the cold war which absolutely killed any sense of patriotic endeavouring. So no, we won't have our own D&D, we will play foreign D&D and fucking enjoy it, we won't even have the grace to name our characters Pedro or Juan we will have to name them Thomas Mcson or Agatha Winston or some shit like that, people willing cuck themselves to the US nowadays and if you claim anything else other than that you will get laughed at.
Not my idea but in one of DnD campaign I had with some pals in university I had a friend play a character named "Rudolf Beardler" who was a very angry dwarf that couldn't get into art school due to elf based prejudice and thus he turned into a mercenary willing to extermine all elves. He had a square beard and did tons of anti elven rants. Im quite surprised how well that shit flew because back than we were all part of one of those politically activist left leaning university groups even if I was in it mostly for the parties and beer involved. Was a very light hearted shitpost campaign though and Rudolf was the constant butt of jokes. Our DM loved being one of those "gotcha" types that makes up traps and scenarios specifically set to fuck your character or previous choices so we had like 9 different elf encounters where we simply couldn't start a battle or argument without everyone ending up dead so the character couldn't really shine other than being spiteful
