Well, there have been plenty of groups that have been around for ridiculously long times that were still considered impure, some of which had been in charge right before they were demonized, and I an think of a few reasons for Amon to have used that sort of terminology, but it needed explanation and context, which the show did not give. One day I may write a fic that puts forth my pet theory for why he used that term, but not now.
I have never gone near Fist of The North Star. It looks a little overly gratuitously violent for me to enjoy. It sounds like a fascinating premise, but the TV tropes page makes it look like it wouldn't be handled in a way I like.
I noticed this about Star Wars. As bad as the Sith were, the Jedi could muck things up just as badly, and are so absolutist in their ideology, that the concentration of power they hold (magical and temporal) is downright scary. Nobody votes for a Jedi to become a Jedi. Nobody even is engaging in any kind of social contract at all. The force sensitive are just born with a huge amount of power. And the thing is, the movies see no problem with this, and most of the expanded universe writers follow right along with that. It's a consequence, I think, of our fantasies of agency. We all think, wouldn't it be nice if we had that kind of power, we would do good things with it, etc. But what about the rest of the universe?
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Date: 2012-08-24 04:09 am (UTC)I have never gone near Fist of The North Star. It looks a little overly gratuitously violent for me to enjoy. It sounds like a fascinating premise, but the TV tropes page makes it look like it wouldn't be handled in a way I like.
I noticed this about Star Wars. As bad as the Sith were, the Jedi could muck things up just as badly, and are so absolutist in their ideology, that the concentration of power they hold (magical and temporal) is downright scary. Nobody votes for a Jedi to become a Jedi. Nobody even is engaging in any kind of social contract at all. The force sensitive are just born with a huge amount of power. And the thing is, the movies see no problem with this, and most of the expanded universe writers follow right along with that. It's a consequence, I think, of our fantasies of agency. We all think, wouldn't it be nice if we had that kind of power, we would do good things with it, etc. But what about the rest of the universe?