Research talk:5¢/

So... Was Team Plasma Actually Right?

channel: KrillikVA
field, scope, or group [Item]: Pokémon (pronounced proposed / Fy)1-1-1; urban fantasy (pronounced proposed / Fy)1-1-1; pronounced 618. (S)pronounced (E.S.) (S): pronounced E.S. ⧼hue-ins-domain-spacer/⧽ethics (pronounced proposed / FS)1-1-1; secular animism (pronounced proposed / A)1-1-1

Links

YouTube: [1]

Nickel usage or significance

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Motifs or claims

Pokémon is about ethics / Pokémon is a series about ethics / (9k)
a puzzle I cannot solve (Pokémon Adventures [?], generation 5; motif) / Why do Black's Pokémon stay loyal? (question)
the balance between Pokémon and humanity

Subjective themes

N is an anarchist (Pokémon) / N Harmonia is a charcoal anarchist (tribal anarchisms; pronounced meta-Marxism onto pronounced fiction) / N is a strawberry anarchist (Fisherism) [2] -> this is a more complicated claim than it sounds. the claim is that because N talks about Pokémon being raised in society as something that programs them to think and want certain things rather than what they "really" want, he is saying that society is unnatural while Free Will can only exist uncorrupted outside society. unpacking how that relates to anarchism takes longer, but there are various ways to argue that depending on what anarchism you're aiming at.
case of: assertion someone is an anarchist.
N is a Western Marxist (Pokémon) / N Harmonia is the fantasy equivalent of a Western-Marxist — in an allegorical sense — because N looked at the system of humans recruiting Pokémon into Pokémon teams (corporations) to level them up and evolve them (gain "job experience" or social capital) at the expense of other Pokémon (thousands of people who don't get hired), and questioned why Pokémon (workers) should allow trainers (bourgeoisie) to decide everything that they value and believe (what industry they belong to, what they produce, whether the way a corporation operates is ethical) -> I am pretty burned out on following Pokémon "unironically", but this right here is the only kind of thing that can bring me back to Pokémon as a "plot thread" that I can't help tugging on that is absolutely gripping