Not a meme though
I agree with his overall dissection of the weakness of writing and the nonexistent character, however I find it absurd to say liberals are afraid of change and fight change.
That’s a whole new level of mental gymnastics
american liberals are pretty much conservatives with LGBT rights by european standards. And well, our european “liberals” are mostly economically neoliberal, autocratic reactionaries and racist in many aspects but with LGBT rights and legalized pot. They’d sell out on the LGBT rights for a new car though.
I think you’re confusing liberalism with leftism. The post is talking about neoliberalism, which is fundamentally a political philosophy of “no bad systems, only bad actors”, and is actually pretty darn anti-change and therefore conservative. If you’d like to watch a longer form essay that goes into more detail on the points that greentext brought up, and explains it within the greater context of Rowling’s own politics, I highly recommend this video by Shaun (a leftist YT essayist): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1iaJWSwUZs
One perspective I don’t see very often in this discussion is one I heard in the appendices of the revolutions podcast. It is the following: People are moderate or radical in both means and ends respectively. So in ideological conflicts one will find:
- Radical radicals: people willing to use means outside the current system (e.g. violent force) to reach radical ends (e.g. communism or fascism).
- Moderate radicals: people only willing to use means within the current system to reach radical ends.
- Moderate moderates: people only willing to use means within the current system to reach moderate ends and go no further.
- Radical moderates: people willing to use radical means to reach moderate ends and prevent it from going any further.
I think this is a good perspective to have when looking at behavior of different political groups.
Ever read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality?
I have read the whole thing. And it is /r/iamverysmart level of cringe.
It’s dunking on basically the entire wizarding world being paste-eating levels of stupid in the original, as well as lampooning cringey fan-fiction. I think you might have missed an element of self-awareness.
I read the first 15 or so chapters, then stopped because Harry was just a completely insufferable Mary Sue. I see a lot of people praising for the ideas behind it but the actual writing itself is pretty bad.
I’m not sure Mary Sue is the right trope. Although half the point is highlighting all the pointless stupidity of the original, so it’s hard not to come across as condescending.
