h a l f b a k e r y"Bun is such a sad word, is it not?" -- Watt, "Waiting for Godot"
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Manga and Anime are thought bombs from Japan in response
to the Atomic bombs that ended World War II. Those large-
eyed characters are aimed at the peduncle of our culture,
our
Romeo-and-Juliet-aged-adolescents's sense of idealism. War
has progressed from "physical" to economic and now to
art.
Our response should be a "danceosphere" in the sense of
Teilhard de Chardin's nooisphere. Chardin thought that the
next step in planetary evolution would be a nooisphere or
layer of complexity analogous to the cerebral cortex in
humans. If an electronic-network-based graphical language
like Manga and Anime) is one step in that evolution, the
next
step would be a emotional-network-based gestural
language.
My recommendation is that people start dancing at their
computers.
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I dunno. They're still using bombs and guns in Afghanistan, and the North Koreans are fixated with a nuclear device. I think I'd prefer it if our guys in uniform went at them with something more destructive than a solid rumba. |
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"Roger that." "Tango Foxtrot do you copy?, over." |
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You just got served [JHC]. Unfortunately you couldn't see it. |
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And one and two and bun and two. |
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I was gonna fishbone this because of the suggestion that a successfully exported culture which wasn't American was somehow insidiously evil, but the image of geeks the world over boogying as they type has set me giggling helplessly. |
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"Cartoons - America's original art form. I don't include Jazz cos it sucks." -- Bart Simpson |
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I think The Simpsons, just by itself, is equal to Anime in terms of influence to Westerners. Thank God. |
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