This feels like the exact opposite extreme, a position of pure misanthropic nihilism which is both useless and not imo terribly tenable. "People never change" feels empty and self justifying too.
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People... *can* change, but they usually don't, and whether they do is usually not dependent on some great act of will
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
But yes, TGP is obviously a "healthier" show to educate your kids with than Bojack Horseman Hell I'd even say that the ending of BH, which I thought was very good, should come with a million content warnings for suicidal ideation
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I mean, bluntly? What fuels a lot of the core burnout far right people IS the idea that you can't really change, you can only be you.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
Like I'm obviously nor one of those saccharine people who think Hopepunk Will Change the World - but if you ask me a lot of what's driving our current death spiral into reactionary populist hell is the decadent cynicism of the 90s and 00s.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
Where caring about things or people was for squares and liars; REAL people embrace their shittiness!
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Bojack Horseman really isn't like that at all The core problem driving all its action is that Bojack cannot be happy "just being himself", he finds being himself intolerable
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
That's part of why the episode where they are hunting down the baby doll he threw away and we get to hear his inner thoughts is one of my favorite episodes, as well as the most relatable one. Because it absolutely nails the head voice of someone that hates themselves.
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Replying to @Aggrax @loudpenitent and
Herb's final parting words to Bojack, that Bojack would be much happier if he could just admit to himself that he's a piece of shit who doesn't really care about anybody, sting extra hard *because what he's proposing is impossible* Bojack is an asshole because he CAN'T do that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Aggrax and
Every good thing and every bad thing he's done is because he's desperate for approval, he can't exist without it, his ego is this entirely reactive thing He doesn't agree with the reasons Herb was "disgraced" but it doesn't matter, the disgrace was more real than the friendship
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So, yes, the TGP character he is is Tahani, but a much more gritty look at how the Tahanis of the world cause serious harm to the people around them beyond just being humorously vapid and hypocritical
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