Cool post, I listened right through! A few thoughts:
(1) I know a lot of people trying to craft a new understanding of religion or theology, and they all seem to have their own idea of what to do here! Not to discourage but. It’s a challenge! This makes me want to create a survey to try to capture variance in ideas people have and use a factor analysis to identify clusters of beliefs and values in this space. You've heard of the World Values Survey; this would be a futurist or very online values survey, or something. Items might include: pro or anti life extension; pro or anti natalism; transcendental nature of God; etc. I have a whole list but I won't spam it here. Maybe I'll throw them in a Google forms survey later.
(2) If one believes population collapse is an important selection event, I wonder if it follows that pronatal interventions are counterproductive.
(3) If Japanese anime is more pronatalist than Western media, it doesn’t seem to have saved Japanese society from an anti-natalist outcome. I guess the best explanation I can imagine is that if modern egalitarian capitalist liberalism is the cause, the West are true believers who implemented the system because they believed it in their hearts, while in Japan it’s an import that was applied from the top down without necessarily buy-in from their artists and creators.
To be brief about it 70s anime was dominated by work heavily influenced by classic European children’s literature like World Masterpiece Theater which heavily foregrounds children and their relationships with parental figures. Narratives are often about children yearning for parents, and healthy adults are portrayed by default as having children, childless adults often depicted as broken or incomplete in some way. It’s hard to think of many works of fiction in the last 50 years that romanticise healthy functional parenthood as heavily as Ie Naki Ko or 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother. In general contemporary anime tends to romanticise perpetual childhood over family and domesticity, even in supposedly more grounded genres like slice of life. I don’t have the studies bu I’m beyond certain that individual cumulative anime viewership today would be negatively correlated with reproductivity.
Cool post, I listened right through! A few thoughts:
(1) I know a lot of people trying to craft a new understanding of religion or theology, and they all seem to have their own idea of what to do here! Not to discourage but. It’s a challenge! This makes me want to create a survey to try to capture variance in ideas people have and use a factor analysis to identify clusters of beliefs and values in this space. You've heard of the World Values Survey; this would be a futurist or very online values survey, or something. Items might include: pro or anti life extension; pro or anti natalism; transcendental nature of God; etc. I have a whole list but I won't spam it here. Maybe I'll throw them in a Google forms survey later.
(2) If one believes population collapse is an important selection event, I wonder if it follows that pronatal interventions are counterproductive.
(3) If Japanese anime is more pronatalist than Western media, it doesn’t seem to have saved Japanese society from an anti-natalist outcome. I guess the best explanation I can imagine is that if modern egalitarian capitalist liberalism is the cause, the West are true believers who implemented the system because they believed it in their hearts, while in Japan it’s an import that was applied from the top down without necessarily buy-in from their artists and creators.
Analysis of anime pronatalism sadly wrong! Anime was more pronatalist in the 1970s.
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To be brief about it 70s anime was dominated by work heavily influenced by classic European children’s literature like World Masterpiece Theater which heavily foregrounds children and their relationships with parental figures. Narratives are often about children yearning for parents, and healthy adults are portrayed by default as having children, childless adults often depicted as broken or incomplete in some way. It’s hard to think of many works of fiction in the last 50 years that romanticise healthy functional parenthood as heavily as Ie Naki Ko or 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother. In general contemporary anime tends to romanticise perpetual childhood over family and domesticity, even in supposedly more grounded genres like slice of life. I don’t have the studies bu I’m beyond certain that individual cumulative anime viewership today would be negatively correlated with reproductivity.
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