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 @arthur_affect and
One thing I also liked about this last season is seeing Bojack as someone that hasn't yet accepted that his work is going to last the rest of his life. He wants to be done changing, to be finished with the things he's done. But you can't be finished with them until you die.
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Replying to @Aggrax @arthur_affect and
Bojack's choices, and his attempt to change and be better, will last the rest of his life. And as someone with a chronic condition that will last the rest of my life and that I've been very bad at managing, that kinda resonated.
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Yeah the very ugly combination of relief and horror at knowing there really is nothing behind the door, that death is just it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Aggrax and
...I don't think I can speak on this one.
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