not much has changed, but also everything has changed. if you can look at things abstractly you will see that there are certain aspects of human behaviour that are static and have been for thousands of years, so if you can learn to recognize those then you'll be able to much more quickly understand the world in it's current state. It's mostly our technology that's changing rapidly, and it's there we can't predict what will come next. I think Miyazaki is mostly starting to feel his own mortality here, and that he projects that impending sense of doom onto the entire world.
@Vanity0666 Жыл бұрын
@@toomanysymbolsiyazaki is a lifelong socialist and environmentalist and as a result is capable of understanding the effects of things that most people outright refuse to pay attention to. That's what he's talking about here. It starts with limiting what people are allowed to think, see, hear, and feel. Once those faculties for forming critical thought are gone, it's incredibly easy to whip people into a frenzy of confusion and rage - the elements necessary to foment support for a war. The writing on the wall isn't about them, it's about us all.
@toomanysymbols Жыл бұрын
@@Vanity0666 yeah i know, but again i don't think he's right about it being about us all. he is feeling his own mortality, he knows his time is almost up, and is still very much stuck in the old way of doing things. he confuses technological change, and his own impending sense of doom, with some sort of moral or social degradation. this is just the way it's always gone with the older generation coming to terms with younger people entering the world, as they themselves are having to slowly leave it behind. they think a technological change will inevitably degrade life as we know it i do think we have a problem of the elite trying to tranquilize the general populus through mindless entertainment, but this has also been going on for thousands of years already. "panem et circenses" in roman times, christianity in medieval europe, theater and plays since ancient greece. our technology evolves, human nature barely does, at least within timespans we can perceive.
@Vanity0666 Жыл бұрын
@@toomanysymbols Our technology has never "evolved" in any meaningful way, all of our modern technology just facilitates existing technologies. He's not talking about technology at all. He's talking about how the younger generation is being led by the ear to serve political interests that are anti-human
Japan didn't went crazy back then, they just answered to Western imperialism. French, Brits and Americans were all meddling in Asia and Japan was pressured. People also say Germany went crazy, when in reality they just responded to being occupied. History only tells a very one-sided story of WW2 and history is a lie.
@notoriouslystupid2770 Жыл бұрын
Lmao japan wont even teach what they did during ww2 because they were that bad dude
@fickdich2867 Жыл бұрын
@@notoriouslystupid2770 USA floods Europe with 3rd world foreigners mass immigration. Allies are Communists who completely ruined the west.
@SmutnyReptyl11 ай бұрын
Their answer was to make their own imperialism for the profit of local capital. People in III Reich and Imperial Japan were even more miserable than before facists took power.