lizbee | (Reply)

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I'm interested that on the one hand we have the urban university graduate (according to the Republic City game) who's in a position where he can spend his days protesting in the park rather than working, versus the bender who needs to work a menial job and whose skills as an athlete leave him vulnerable to rackets.

It reminds me a little of how in my country's South, which as you probably know is infamous in a lot of world for its frequently intransigent and/or reactionary pull at the politics of the United States as a whole, there are genuine feelings of historical grievance--not entirely illegitimate since much of the South is very underdeveloped by American standards to the point that Mississippi in particular actually has a Human Development Index somewhere around Russia's and Mexico's--that make the area susceptible to the type of right-wing religious nationalism that unlike the economic leftism that the South was associated with for a while there (northern Louisiana was one of the most set-the-woods-on-fire borderline-Communist parts of the United States in the early part of the last century) is these days willing to pay lip service to what the South perceives as those of its cultural values that are being repressed by elites in the North and West. And this used to be the worldview of a lot of people in the West as well, before the deprived inland primary-industries parts of that area got crowded out by the affluent, somewhat slacktivist parts of the Pacific coastline and left-leaning immigrant communities along the Mexican border. But of course the way things are done in the South is often pretty internally repressive and was formerly extremely so...

None of which is immediately relevant to Korra, but it's the same sort of thing going on with multiple layers of domination and dependency, where it's hard to know exactly what level the oppression is taking place on, precisely because it's taking place across levels and sectors of society. The dynamics of class and material versus immaterial privilege going on in this show are really fascinating already, aren't they?