I find a insistence on hope not only cloying buy unfair and manipulative. What if I don't fucking want to feel hopeful? And if I'm not hopeful, did the shitty things that keep happening happen because I didn't have the right outlook? It's some kind of high level emotional blackmail bullshit, as far as I'm concerned.
That's a point that I couldn't quite articulate -- there's a sort of magical thinking in the western world that tells us to be happy, and if we're not happy, maybe we're not trying hard enough and we deserve to be sick or sad or ... whatever.
And I feel like we're seeing a lot of consequences of unfounded hope? A lot of UK voters hoped they could just Brexit on out of the EU without consequences, and they were wrong. Hope is important, but so is realism.
However, as far as I can tell, "grimdark" = "something dealing with darker themes that I personally did not like."
Yeah, look, I'll argue until I'm blue in the fact that GRRM's work isn't grimdark on account of how, aside from the dragons and zombies, nothing happens in those books which hasn't happened in actual history, and until the story is over, it's too soon to say whether it's nihilistic.
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That's a point that I couldn't quite articulate -- there's a sort of magical thinking in the western world that tells us to be happy, and if we're not happy, maybe we're not trying hard enough and we deserve to be sick or sad or ... whatever.
And I feel like we're seeing a lot of consequences of unfounded hope? A lot of UK voters hoped they could just Brexit on out of the EU without consequences, and they were wrong. Hope is important, but so is realism.
Yeah, look, I'll argue until I'm blue in the fact that GRRM's work isn't grimdark on account of how, aside from the dragons and zombies, nothing happens in those books which hasn't happened in actual history, and until the story is over, it's too soon to say whether it's nihilistic.