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So the latest Kongming? Lives have been affected now. This shit is no joke. Easily one of my favorite episodes of anime. 🧵 Like emotionally, I am destroyed, but the show has things and stuff to say about capitalism so it's elevated so, so much moreOn twitter.com
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I think, from a show that in episode one presented itself as a silly and out-there premise with fun jokes and good music and animation, its ability to bring an emotional gut punch out of me, and to connect with me as a person, esp a person trying to make art under capitalism...Permalink On twitter.com
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...really impressed me. The show presents Nanami and her friends as stuck in a cycle of wanting to pursue their art, but not being able to survive off of it because rent costs too much, and being forced to work instead of do art, and doing art less, and making less from the artPermalink On twitter.com
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This is the cycle I am stuck in. "Mo where are the videos? Mo where are the essays?" I gotta pay rent. I gotta go to school. I gotta do tech interviews. It never stops.Permalink On twitter.com
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Raghava says: the part that really resonated for us was the fact that in order to avoid working a job they didn't like, they commodified their music. They suppressed their creative voice to be marketable. But in so doing they killed their love of the thing. It ceased to be a...Permalink On twitter.com
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...passion and became another job they hate. There's a cruel irony in that. Especially as a direct refutation of the idea that you can turn your passion into a job so you do what you love forever. The anxiety of work under capitalism is that jobifying your passion kills itPermalink On twitter.com