tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post5198709275485410231..comments2024-02-25T05:24:24.948-05:00Comments on Beyond Easy: Celebrity, Mythology, & The Machine (part 8)Patrick Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02410016566636603639noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-45289027449699045202022-10-25T00:45:29.096-04:002022-10-25T00:45:29.096-04:00It's not just my getting older and distrusting...It's not just my getting older and distrusting The New. I grew up with the early versions of all this stuff, after all, and I don't think it was any less screwy back then. It's not like I can say my lusting after Darkstalkers characters was perfectly healthy behavior on the basis that Morrigan x Lilith hentai took a while to load on a dial-up connection.<br /><br />I can't judge the kids TOO harshly for falling into the same traps as I did. I just worry that it's getting harder to wriggle out.Patrick Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02410016566636603639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-65219525734874063582022-10-19T23:41:35.688-04:002022-10-19T23:41:35.688-04:00Very interesting to read your stuff as you get old...Very interesting to read your stuff as you get older and the new generation of normal alienates you further from the mainstream. The very fact that you even question the normalcy of a digital "waifu" is essentially blasphemy in the so called progressive wave (progressive sure, but to what end? Devo was right...). That along with the questioning of anything that might be seen as abnormal by most rational people.<br /><br />Macross really had it right with Lynn Minmay. Way back then the power of the virtual Idol was discovered, but alas no internet to exploit it. It's like someone discovered cold fusion by mistake and then just forgot about it. In this sense Japan is the cutting edge with Hatsune Miku, vocaloids, and all the other what-nots. <br /><br />But like you say, all celebrity is virtual; it always has been. Even the King of a kingdom was really just the embodiment of state ideals rather than a multidimensional human being.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com