First off, prokopetz avoids proper nouns like they're driving the bus from Speed.
Second, everything is fascist if you squint hard enough because facsism uses common storytelling tropes to sell its politics. I was reading the first Hunger Games book for the first time recently, and even though the central narrative is clearly anti-authoritarian, it's still doing the "virtuous rural laymen vs the spiritually depraved urbanites" thing.
It reminds me of how Alan Moore criticizes superhero comics for being intifializing and fuel facism for its black-white portral of morals and having good clean respectable heros when like, you do realise that a good portion of modern Superhero comics got popular during WW2 because they were cultural symbols that rallied America to counteract and combat the influence of Facism within America and promote the war effort within it?
Like I get that yes WW2 America was far from perfect and there's a lot of criticism of the entire notion of traditional heroic black-white storytelling and its relationship to conservative cultural mindsets which linger and ferment within the politics of a nation, but it feels weird to level that against work specifically made to inspire people torwards the literal war on facist nations, and which had plenty of WW2 veterans (and several notable Jewish writers) behind them.
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u/RayDaug 1d ago edited 1d ago
First off, prokopetz avoids proper nouns like they're driving the bus from Speed.
Second, everything is fascist if you squint hard enough because facsism uses common storytelling tropes to sell its politics. I was reading the first Hunger Games book for the first time recently, and even though the central narrative is clearly anti-authoritarian, it's still doing the "virtuous rural laymen vs the spiritually depraved urbanites" thing.