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>everyone has read that shit lol
They haven't. You and I are definitely non-retards but the vast majority of Americans have no familiarity at all with that stuff, if they even read at all. At most it's a footnote in school or college if they remember it, or some offhand reference from Family Guy or whatever.
>you can like/reference star trek without liking what roddenberry liked
For sure, but that misses the point; which is understanding the literature, philosophy, culture, and artists that influenced Rodenberry and /trek/. And to do that, to a degree you need to be familiar with classics just like any other form of media.
>can like some chinese cartoon in spite of it offending your melodramatic "last some of the west" larp
I like this movie on its own merits and the weird little fandom around it here, that's why I made the general lol. I was more in that post trying to explain the roots of hardcore Koreaboos and similar stuff as a phenomenon in the context of the U.S and West.
>You are just hyper-aware of the decline because of modern media consumption is making people neurotic about it.
No, it's more that I'm aware of the fact that I likely won't be able to afford a house in my lifetime, meet a woman my age I can settle down and have kids with, or even feed myself or fuel my car and stack money at the same time due to cost of living skyrocketing and third places no longer existing. That's why people my age are so angry and bitter.
>I'll guarantee the guy you were affirming there prefers German literature published around July 18, 1925
Indeed, but I'm interested in the reasons why these radical, delusional, objectively failed ideas have gained such traction in my generation, and that requires asking some uncomfortable questions and doing some unpleasant thought exercises. It's why I'm studying PoliSci at University and intend on working within the beltway or academia.
Anyway, Japanese Oni Chasseurs.
