3/But this is beside the point. Anime itself, as an institution, is clearly neoliberal. The first (and simplest) reason is that anime is a global industry, bringing people together through shared enjoyment of products they consume.pic.twitter.com/1LiZjJle7v
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4/The industry has also helped Japan diversify into services, and boosted its exports - both monetary and cultural. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-11-25/reviving-japan-inc-s-entertainment-division …pic.twitter.com/ggPg9VuQKn
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5/Anime often depicts explicitly globalist themes - characters with names and appearances implying that they're from all over the world, themes of international cooperation and peace, etc.pic.twitter.com/Soh3KiYQlX
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6/The most neoliberal anime is probably Cowboy Bebop, which depicts a hardy band of entrepreneurs trying to make it in a fully globalized, capitalist future.pic.twitter.com/bL8JuCKbne
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7/But the ultimate reason that anime is neoliberal, as I see it, is something more subtle. Anime depicts thriving technological civilizations that are *explicitly nonwhite*, and not associated with the colonial legacy of Old Europe.pic.twitter.com/YH45levJSN
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8/Perhaps the central idea of neoliberalism - at least the left-leaning 1990s version rather than the reactionary-libertarian 1980s version - is that global trade and a mixed economy can make the developing world rich. https://www.bradford-delong.com/2018/12/delongs-principles-of-neoliberalism-thanks-to-miniver-cheevy-for-formatting-hoisted-from-the-archives-from-1999.html …pic.twitter.com/tlDrFPXpl6
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9/Since decolonization in the mid-20th century, we've seen a remarkable flowering of industry, technology, and mixed-economy prosperity, especially in Asia but also increasingly in Africa. That, in my opinion, is the good kind of neoliberalism. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-18/why-the-developing-world-started-gaining-on-the-west …pic.twitter.com/12sESznyui
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How much of that has been driven by dirigiste policies neo-liberals oppose?
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Good question, and hard to say! It probably varies a lot from country to country. Often, it seems driven by the relaxing of dirigiste policies (India), but sometimes dirigiste policies seemed to speed the process up greatly (Korea)...
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Yeah, China and South Korea were the main examples I was thinking of. Japan too.
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In China, the relaxing of some dirigiste policies helped a lot (letting people lease their land, opening up trade, more private ownership, etc. etc.), while some dirigiste policies also helped (SEZs, export promotion), and others produced growth at great environmental cost.
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