The stuff I have written here were as a
response to some questions a reader had but I have omitted it
because I didn't ask for their permission to post their half
of the conversation, and also because it would have the post
much longer. A few things here and there might not make sense
but the argument is there:
I am glad somebody gets my jokes. I kind of like slipping it in there while sounding serious. Stuffy charm? That's what I write like when I am seething.
Well, as for conceptual art it is certainly funded by money
laundering but there's people who do genuinely get something out
of it, and although I cannot feel it myself, I find it
interesting to hear their reasoning. I think I mentioned K-ON
and digi in the article. Although I find his thoughts on his
experience watching it interesting and understandable but I
didn't get anything out of it myself and I will not pretend that
I did when I talk about K-ON. I guess the issue that I
have with some of the people who are into stuff like Warhol is
that they think their stuff is equal to or even greater than
something which took some actual craft to make.
No, it's fine. I'll talk about copyright. As I said in my
article most people will tell you what they actually think if
you ask them without being like some sort of new atheist
ready to deboonk and play a game of exchaning known talking
points, kinda like table tennis but retarded, rather than
hearing out what anyone has to say about anything. Like
sometimes it can look like two bots, NPC1 and NPC2, trotting
out talking points in an almost pre-planned manner. Like,
"You'll say that when I say this, alright? Okay . Good."
As for copyright my views are pretty usual, intellectual rights
are not property rights. If I actually stole your car you
wouldn't have a car but if I made a copy of your car you would
still have yours. Also if you take copyright to its
logical conclusion well then you end up with the "you will own
nothing and you will be happy" world of subscription services
that we are headed to.
Or in other words if you can't make a copy of something you bought then you don't really own it, you can't really tinker with it, and you are totally dependent on the person who allegedly sold it to you but really you have just borrowed it from them, property rights become meaningless in a world where people increasingly cannot own property it, and if they cannot even substantially modify their own property without someone's permission then they don't really own anything, they didn't buy it, they're just increasingly renting everything for everything which they own. And so intellectual rights are antithetical to property rights, real ownership which I do still believe in even though I am not a lolbert - there are things worth protecting from the market like Tradition.
People who pay crunchyroll and who feel superior for it don't
deserve any respect or attention. You already know that the
money doesn't go to anime creators but rather mostly to
wankfests like that deformed crunchyroll cartoon (how dare
anyone call it anime) with an all white female middle class
progressive production. Fucking parasites! They only fixed the
html5 player when Digibro attention-whored about it.
Now some might say that anime has always been affected and
inspired by the West so what's the difference now? The problem
is that the West has cancer, ligma, whatever Metokur is
afflicted by, and AIDs now to a degree which it did not have say
when Cowboy Bebop was made. Until the west is cured of this
rapidly increasing retardation the West is basically a cultural
blight and should be isolated.
Of course I know Japan is like Britain just a province of
the the United States so whatever happens in America will
happen there. These cancerous subscription services like
Crunchyroll are hastening that.
Speaking of copyright and anime, I really liked how annoyed
Blank was when I posted a link to Daicon III and IV. I really
like how much copying or "sharing" there's in anime and I think
that people basically learn anything by copying so let people do
that. That's how you set up a tradition of any kind anyway,
people imitiating (read: copying) artists they admire and
modifying it slightly with their own thing, building upon what
was there before and expanding it. Copyright cancer gets in the
way, it's moral syphilis so step over it.
As for most people being better off without media, I meant it in almost a Ted Kazynski kind of way, however unlike Uncle Ted I am not a universalist so I think they are a minority who can consume art and media productively rather then letting it consume them. I just don't trust most people anymore to have that capability or will to not just be passive consumers but to think and create themselves.
Basically Uncle Ted's idea is that anything you do that is
removed, by any number of levels, from ensuring your survival,
is just a surrogate activity. In a way it is almost
Aristotelian, you need to go out there and touch grass in irl
minecraft survival mode (if uncle Ted had found minecraft he
might have taken less interest in the implications of the US
postal system) rather than living in your own head with platonic
cushions and featherless bipeds and lolis and Gundams (tip: Say
"Aren't they all Gundams?" to piss off Gundam fans).
I really liked Uncle Ted's "no u" against society by labeling it
as oversocialised when he was psychologised for not being social
enough. At some level though, and I know there will be much
seething and gnashing of teeth, when I say he could have done
better and it was clear he didn't have enough control of his
urges and so he had to run away like Shinji. Come to think of it
Eva kind of is Riaju Propaganda. I just don't think Uncle Ted is
the exception and I think most people would be emotionally
better off without mass media because they can't handle it.
If that gypsy on Youtoob, Veeh, is a trustworthy source then in totalitarian communist Romania people were happier when they didn't have access to free media but when the government just told them there was no crime or disorder, people apparently left their front doors unlocked whereas now though crime rates in Romania are supposedly lower, they have built fences and walls around their homes because they hear of every little crime in the country and the world which happens - which makes them feel powerless. And because they feel powerless they are easier to lead around by the state and financial interest. So the argument is that these people might have been better off in isolated hamlets without much access to media.
Personally I think the genie is out of the bottle, you are not
going to stop what Nick Land calls the Acceleration of Capital,
so while I agree that people might be better off without most
media I doubt whether it is feasible and so I am seeking for
other means other than the restriction of media and capital, for
however improbable these other means may be, they are not as
improbable as the restriction of Capital and mass media in the
long term. It is not all doom and gloom, because of the
internets people have broken off into smaller communities and
interests and any community which is specific and small gives
more power to each member and you know what comes with power.
This is incidentally the reason why Democracy has been a
failure. As Hoppe said, almost any kind of system can work for a
small community but democracy does not work for a large
community. This is probably the reason why despite the fact that
Switzerland is a democracy it is less shit than most, because a
lot of decisions are taken at the local canton level. Basically
a small country divided even into smaller bits.
Going back to the Aristotelian Uncle Ted metaphor (it's just a
metaphor, I haven't read a word of what Aristotle said, I just
watch anime) the problem with mass culture, mass media (i.e.
Most media), and for that matter large-scale-democracy is that
it is just too abstract, platonic almost (again, I have no idea
what that word means), in short it is idiotic to assume that
most people are willing or able to, that they've even got the
time to spend to understand the media they consume critically
and exercise the power they have over their own lives, rather
they will use the media to separate themselves from their own
lives and responsibilities and so leaving them weaker and with
less agency, easier pickings for invisible people who don't care
about them but have power over them through the press and the
academy, Moldbug's decentralised Cathedral.
Back to copyright, yes without copyright we might have less
media or we might not. As for the decrease in originality which
copyright people claim will come, I just laugh at that, given
the lack of creativity in our current intellectual property
hoarding environment of mainstream media, all the
creativity and originality is on the fringes where copyright is
not enforced. I am not saying everything could be Touhoes but
more things could be.
"But if it wasn't created by Disney - Pinocchio, Aladin, Snow
White, and Sleeping Beauty wouldn't exist!" cries the
copyright-shill as he strikes you. My argument is basically the
lolbert argument about government infrastructure spending. When
the government builds a bridge you can see that bridge and say
that it is good but you can't see what that stolen (sorry I
meant taxed) money would have gone to fund had it being
allocated more efficiently by the market. It is the same here
too, you can see Star Wars and that it is trash but you
can't see the transformative works that would have been made had
it been for copyright.
Small artists who actually take risks would greatly benefit
from the abolishment of copyright, as they can get attention by
making original content freely for any established community
around some franchise or "universe" as Zarathustra's
Serpent
would call it.
As for the interests of the """original""" artists themselves, firstly there is nothing new under the sun, secondly whatever impact this has on their incomes it can only have a positive impact on their output as there will be more competition, and this impact on their output is what should matter to them most if they are true artists. If their output suffers because there's others are better at writing stories in the universe they created then that is what must happen.
By Otaking, or The Good Student