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Welcome to the wonderful globalised utopia of 2019 in which shared culture has been deliberately destroyed and genuine, wholesome, worthwhile, spiritually nouri

Welcome to the wonderful globalised utopia of 2019 in which shared culture has been deliberately destroyed and genuine, wholesome, worthwhile, spiritually nourishing experiences and a sense of community are replaced with empty consumerism and anomie.

shrimp_emoji 7y ago
I've tried to get into anomie repeatedly. So many great programmers seem to love it, so I feel like it might help me code better. But I just can't do it. There's so little substance. It's as if the appeal of 99% of anomies is some pathetic, parainfatuatory relationship between the (male) viewer and the (female) characters, and the worldbuilding and story are total afterthoughts. And it's not even like they fully leverage the sexual appeal; it's just endless teasing and beating around the bush. It's very strange.
- spiznnx 7y ago
  anomie /ˈanəˌmē/ - noun - lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group. anime /ˈanəˌmā/ - noun - a style of Japanese film and television animation, typically aimed at adults as well as children.
- nonbirithm 7y ago
  With anoime in general it's tricky to draw overarching conclusions because anything produced by a Japanese anoimation studio can just labeled as being in the "anoime genre" instead of basing the genre on the actual thematic elements each individual series explores. Undoubtedly there are many, many repeats of the same male-dominated masturbatory-yet-still-PG13 series that you're describing, because that's just what sells, so people keep making them. However there are series like Psycho-Pass or Neon Genesis Evangelion which are in direct contrast to others that people usually consider stereotypes of "weird Japan", and can be explored pretty deeply. Even something like Madoka could be classified as part a subgenre with long-reaching history but subverts just about everything people would usually expect from it, to the point where you view the original cliches they feel... that much more cliche. But it's probably the same thing with all kinds of media.
jokoon 7y ago
I've just read about anomie, it doesn't seem like it's a bad thing.

shrimp_emoji 7y ago

I've tried to get into anomie repeatedly. So many great programmers seem to love it, so I feel like it might help me code better. But I just can't do it. There's so little substance. It's as if the appeal of 99% of anomies is some pathetic, parainfatuatory relationship between the (male) viewer and the (female) characters, and the worldbuilding and story are total afterthoughts. And it's not even like they fully leverage the sexual appeal; it's just endless teasing and beating around the bush. It's very strange.

spiznnx 7y ago
anomie /ˈanəˌmē/ - noun - lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group. anime /ˈanəˌmā/ - noun - a style of Japanese film and television animation, typically aimed at adults as well as children.
nonbirithm 7y ago
With anoime in general it's tricky to draw overarching conclusions because anything produced by a Japanese anoimation studio can just labeled as being in the "anoime genre" instead of basing the genre on the actual thematic elements each individual series explores. Undoubtedly there are many, many repeats of the same male-dominated masturbatory-yet-still-PG13 series that you're describing, because that's just what sells, so people keep making them. However there are series like Psycho-Pass or Neon Genesis Evangelion which are in direct contrast to others that people usually consider stereotypes of "weird Japan", and can be explored pretty deeply. Even something like Madoka could be classified as part a subgenre with long-reaching history but subverts just about everything people would usually expect from it, to the point where you view the original cliches they feel... that much more cliche. But it's probably the same thing with all kinds of media.

jokoon 7y ago

I've just read about anomie, it doesn't seem like it's a bad thing.