Two Contrasting Animes Show How to Live Life & Win Elections

In this episode, the hosts discuss the transformation of conservative ideologies, critiquing the 'pearl-clutching' mentality of pre-MAGA conservatism. Through the lens of two contrasting anime series, WataMote & Chunibyo, they explore how different cultural contexts affect mental health and the worldview of individuals. They also delve into a recent article critiquing their unconventional lifestyle and highlight their belief in living authentically with aligned values. Moreover, the conversation covers various aspects of modern conservatism, the impact of AI, and the importance of maintaining passion and creativity in one's approach to life. No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions

this guy represents is the iteration of the conservative party.

That the conservative party lost the, the pearl clutches, the, oh my God, how could they be doing something different? Oh my God. How could this be vulgar? Oh my God. How could this be, you know, oh, anime girls or soft anime, like Matt Walsh represents satisfaction, right?

Yeah. Like where it's always railing against things like anime and video games,

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Then we have the second anime that we're going to be talking about. And people could argue that all of MAGA is kind of doing it,

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Hello Simone. I am excited to be talking to you today. Today we are going to be talking about two things. One is. Contrasting two animes in which the main characters relate to the world very differently.

And I think through the contrast of these two characters, we can learn a lot about mental health and how both the urban monoculture, but also the older conservative culture ends up breaking apart people's minds and causing them to go sort of crazy. But we will also be focused on how. Much I have disdain for the pre maga form of conservatism.

Mm-hmm. Or specifically the form of it that didn't like grow up when conservatism became MAGA , a great example of this and what got me thinking about this was , a article that came out about us recently by this guy who was just absolutely railing on us.. You're referring to a piece that came out in the Bulwark. It's called The Two Faces of Tism, and it's by Jonathan last, who Yes. Apparently also wrote a book on Tism at one point, which I guess is one reason why he feels like he's just figured it out. Yeah, so perhaps the second and third most famous ISTs in America are Michael and Simone Collins, Dr. Not Malcolm. He really does his research, doesn't he? He really does his research, thanks to many, many press profiles of this activist, 30 something couple, which he is not read apparently. Yeah. Here's a sample of their views on parenthood.

Every decision the Collins is make is backed by data. Noms determinism is a heavily studied field. Malcolm tells me when I ask about his children's names. Girls that have gender neutral names are more likely to have high paying careers and to get stem degrees. Names like Titan Industry are much more than gender neutral.

I say we wanted to give our kids strong names. We wanted our kids to have a strong internal locus of control. He continues, almost all the toys are gifts. Malcolm says almost apologetically. We don't throw out anything that gets. Sent to us. Both boys have their own iPads fitted with a strap so they can wear them around their necks.

2-year-old Torsten is alone somewhere with his well jokes on them. The kids broke those straps so fricking fast. Yes they take me upstairs as well as having separate offices. Simone and Malcolm sleep in different bedrooms. Simone shows me some decorations in the living room. They relate to the intentionally constructed religion, technically atheist.

They have internally developed to provide a moral framework promoting their values for prenatal as families. Instead of Christmas, they have future day. The future police come and take their toys, and then they have to write a contract about how they're gonna make the world a better place to get their toys back with some gifts and stuff.

They get more gifts when they do whatever They said they were going to do, what does Christmas teach them? Get random toys if you're vaguely good. And so that was a quote that he had from a different article and so, you know, here I am. Yeah. Specifically the Guardian article. Yeah. I read that and I'm like, yeah, that sounds pretty interesting and cool, like mm-hmm.

Obviously we're not going along with what's socially normative, but like. Yeah. And he's like, I am not one to judge other parents, but that's f up. Let me proceed to judge. You're right. No, but the, the point I'm making here is that this is an individual who is like, oh. GFA clutch, my pearls. People are doing things new.

So I looked up this guy and I go, what else is he known for? He's known for being a never Trumper conservative. Mm-hmm. And he wrote a long piece about how amazing Biden was. For example, he wrote. I hope you drank it in last night. It was one of the most human memories I've ever seen in politics. From the second the president stepped on stage and embraced his daughter, but it was more than that.

It was America saying goodbye to this ordinary man who has become an extraordinary president, a president who saved our democracy. This is one of those cases where the cran strip. Doesn't give you enough context. You need to see the video. You need to see Biden's face and feel the vibrations coming from the crowd.

And you absolutely need to watch his final section where he transitions from campaign speech to valid diction. And I, I. I think somebody who can write with that much passion about Joe Biden. I, I, weak question. What I realize is what this guy represents is the iteration of the conservative party.

That the conservative party lost as it took on people like you and me. The, the pearl clutches, the, oh my God, how could they be doing something different? Oh my God. How could this be vulgar? Oh my God. How could this be, you know, oh, anime girls or soft anime, like Matt Walsh represents satisfaction, right?

Yeah. Like where it's always railing against things like anime and video games, and it's like, okay. You know, and I don't even think like, okay, boomer, because it's not boomer, it's like a very specific faction of curmudgeon. It's, yeah, it, it's, it's not even curmudgeonly. It's like defeatist. It reminds me a lot of tism in the UK where it's like, ugh.

Things are just bad, aren't they? And there's nothing we can do about it, and I just don't like it. I think from the difference between these two groups and we will look at this through anime. We can understand how to improve our own mental health. More, which is a truly, because you, you could tell that an individual like this, like you and I are like living our lives out and proud and weird and we are cl clearly loving it.

Like every day I'm like, this is the best life I could ever have. And this guy. Clearly feels like the world's falling apart around him. You know? Oh, everything was better in the past. Oh, you know, this is all so sad. And you and I are constantly like, look at all the cool things I can do with AI now.

It's amazing. What a time to be alive. And so there's these two animes. One anime that we will be looking at is around a character called Tomo Tomoko. It is called Wamo Otte. And it's, and I'll put some clips of it here to give you like a vibe of it. Okay. But it's about a young girl in middle school or early high school who is very, very socially anxious.

And she really, really wants to be accepted by other people. And she just keeps self-destructing through her selfie a