This might be an unpopular opinion but I don't think Kirby: Air Ride is actually a political game.
For that matter, I don't think Garfield is a political cartoon either, although the promotion of lasagna and the bullying of dogs at the hands of cats may be touchy subjects for some.
Teletubbies? I concede that there might be an argument there for it being political, I mean the purple one is coded gay, right? And we all know that gay = political.
Speaking of politics, my own political awakening was the 1946 Disney animated short aptly named "Squatter's Rights". Chip and Dale did nothing wrong.
Is all art political?
>>8581>can't escape the political context they live under that has shaped themThey can, though. By simply ignoring it. Take the curious example of a Japanese "hentai" artist I ran into recently, Shintaro Kago. His current ongoing series, Parasitic City, is a strange /d/ dreamscape. He paints a surreal world where humans live symbiotically with parasites, where objects such as furniture and cars are now living, breathing things, that breed with each other. How old is Shintaro Kago, what are the political events which affected his life? I have no clue, and neither does any other reader. Is the content political? Perhaps, in the same way as transhumanism, but that doesn't help us pin his era down, as bio-futurism isn't exactly new. As a thought experiment, if I showed you Parasitic City, you wouldn't be able to guess when he published it; precisely because it's devoid of real world context that would help anchor it in some place in time.
"All art is political because capitalism is political" is a tautology, a thought-terminating cliché.
>>8585>just ignore it brothats a very conscious political action my man
>this media is not political because i cant analyze itttttttuh ok, that doesnt change anything the other poster said about an artist being affected by their context
>>8586>thats a very conscious political action my mannice goal post shifting. your argument was all art is political, and when someone points out that art can be apolitical by simply ignoring politics you say "but that's not socially conscious."
the argument wasn't whether art can be apolitical and socially conscious, it was whether it can be apolitical. and anyone who isn't terminally retarded can see that it objectively can be apolitical.
>>8598Make something
Then get back to me
>>8601Its the same tendency of seeking "objectivity" or transcendence in a piece of art
Think about something as simple and accessible as the ending of inception, with thousands of people grasping for an "answer" to a piece of fiction. They lose the forest for the trees.
I see it constantly, and it seems to be getting worse - i think it has to do with autism rates increasing.
>>8610It's an entirely fair post. Pretending that all art is political is a grotesque insult to actual artists who often are trying to express something deeply personal to them and don't want your asinine political views shoved down their throat.
>>8611There is and you're a fucking retard and should kill yourself.
>>8612Like, to make it more concrete, imagine a poet writing a heartfelt, grief-stricken poem about their dead mother.
And then some brainrotted internet leftist starts discussing the "political ramifications" of their poem and how ackshually, it's a bourgeois work that ignores the class struggle in favor of commodity fetishism because, I don't know, it makes a reference to the mother's necklace or something.
If I were that poet, I would want to shoot that "critic" in the fucking head and I doubt a jury would convict me for it.
>>8619AI art is still political because there are no known cases where designing, building, operating and querying AI has been done without human labor, that is without counting that popular AIs are trained with politically influenced art.
Pearls and spider webs are examples of apolitical art.
>>8623The response to "Call of Duty isn't political" is reminding them that it's literally funded by the Pentagon and had people like fucking Iran-Contra plotter Oliver fucking North write and inform for it, has scenes where you assassinate an evil Castro using a woman as a human shield, do terrorism in Venezuela, and blames US war crimes on Russia, and yet it isn't seen as "political" compared to games with black or female characters in it. We are just that indoctrinated into the American propaganda to the point we view shit like CoD as normal.
The proper response is to redpill people about how they're not immune to propaganda
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