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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Noah Berlatsky

      I dunno - I don't think things have to be a 1:1 allegory to work artistically Wanda's shtick FEELS very resonant to me even if the moral links are all hazy and fudgedhttps://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1380993534300459010 …

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      Noah BerlatskyVerified account @nberlat
      whereas Wanda is harming people without knowing it. which is possibly a good metaphor for like, the capitalist and environmental harms of American suburban life, but doesn't connect to her grief in a way that makes much sense.
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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

      Are there many people in the world with a situation that specifically mirrors Wanda's? No of course not Are there a lot of marginalized people who long for the "problematic" image of white picket fence domestic life? Absolutely

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

      It's not a direct 1:1 connection planned from the beginning - the sitcom thing is a retcon about her character, there's no "sitcom stuff" in her backstory from the movies explaining her trauma, they don't have much to do with each other But like, so what It works

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

      Like here's the hot take -- it's a common metaphor for the American postwar experience that the whole 1950s culture of "safety" and "stability" was a PTSD response A reaction to the trauma of the Great Depression followed by the existential crisis of World War II

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

      An oversimplification, surely, but a resonant one -- the overwhelming message of postwar politics and media was "bringing the GIs back home", creating an idyllic utopia to justify everything people had endured during the war

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

      An echo of Warren Harding's "return to normalcy" after the Great War and the flu pandemic in the 1920s Everything people dunk on quiet suburbs for as cringey and conformist now was an explicit selling point back then -- comforting rows of houses, all the same

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          And, like, I've mentioned in threads before the immigrant side of this narrative -- the advertisers and propagandists sold this really hard to American citizens at home but they sold it EXTRA hard to people abroad whose skills they wanted to exploit

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          People who were in a really shitty situation in the place where they grew up who were sold this tantalizing vision of The Good Life through American TV and music and movies And some of them actually got it

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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          The dude from Passion Pit (Michael Angelakos, who is Greek-American) said his viral hit song "Take a Walk" (the dance-pop version of Death of a Salesman's critique of the capitalist American Dream) was very much about the immigrant experience

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        5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          That especially if you hung out with the older men in his family -- a lot of them very culturally Greek, still speaking with accents, still rolling their eyes at a lot of garbage about American politics and culture, very socially liberal and anti-xenophobia and so on

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        6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          But they were all capitalist *as fuck* It was the one part of their politics that was unshakable It was the whole damn reason they were here They never stopped believing in *that part* of the American Dream -- anyone can get rich if they work hard, if they deserve it

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        7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          Beyond "Greek culture" or "American culture", beneath everything else, this was a core value that their whole identity revolved around they would not let go of until they fucking died Fuck the socialists, fuck the taxmen, fuck the regulators, I'm still waiting for my come up

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        8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          (This is... *extremely* resonant with my experience with older Asian-American guys Like eerily so)

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        9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          (It's also very reminiscent of Walter Lee's arc in A Raisin in the Sun, a play that revolves around the desperate struggle of one family to move out to the suburbs and everything the suburbs represent)

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        10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          It's the theme of one of my favorite plays I've ever read in my entire life that I've never actually seen in performance (and am afraid to in case it ruins my memory of reading it), Chay Yew's Wonderland Seek it out if you can, it's a gut punch

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        11. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          To me that's like the core thing WandaVision is about Knowing that the American Dream is a bullshit dream that hurts people It's never really paid out what it advertised Those white picket fences hide a whole legacy of repression and abuse and suffering and pain

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        12. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          The rich families who Had It All back in the Good Old Days had tons of alcoholism and drug addiction and kids running away from home and couples eventually messily divorcing and people hitting midlife crises and writing long screeds about how Everything Is Bullshit

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        13. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          People hated the '50s IN THE '50s, the whole "beatnik" movement was about people who hated the whole "stable house and job and family" thing so much they sold all their possessions and drove around the country doing nothing but fucking around and getting high

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        14. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          And yet holy shit Even when you know it's a poison, that drug gives a powerful high People resent it and dunk on it and hate it so much because it's got its hooks so damn deep in their soul Under the skin of most cynics beats the heart of a wounded believer

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        15. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          Especially those of us who *can't* have it, and never will A lot of this Boomer vs. Millennial Discourse is classic Freudian reaction-formation sour grapes shit "You will never, ever be able to buy a house" Fine, houses are bullshit anyway, only drones live in houses

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        16. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          I *like* my tiny apartment, I *like* eating out all the time and never being able to save money because I've never had the energy to cook My life is *so cool*, I'm not *boring* like my parents (I know I'm owning myself here and yet)

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        17. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          Houses are bullshit, lawns are ridiculous social signaling garbage, office jobs were always filled with ass-kissing and bullshitting time-wasting bilge, the nuclear family was filled with dysfunction and abuse And yet, and yet, and yet

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        18. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          Every day some Millennial who can recite at will the litany of why all the Boomers who lived this life helped destroy the world with car culture and climate change and sucked the life out of American cities and turned into a smug stupid piece of shit Lies awake and wonders

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        19. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          After a day of the petty humiliations of modern gig work even at the upper echelons of the modern service economy In a lonely apartment filled with screens Thinking about mowing the lawn and the smell of fresh-cut grass as the sun sets through the trees

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        20. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          The nice job with the comfy office you've worked at for the past ten years and will continue to work at for the next twenty The boss clapping you on the shoulder over drinks, "You're an asset to the company, son" The pretty wife and the adorable kids, the big friendly dog

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        21. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          The feeling of being safe, of being content, of *knowing where you're supposed to be* at all times Being a stupid dumb complacent shithead, but *having no reason not to be* one Being happy in your ignorance

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        22. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          That smug Boomer confidence that the "OK Boomer" meme is about How many wins do you have to rack up, again and again, every goddamn day, to feel *that good about yourself* Sleeping soundly on a warm bed of accumulated handshakes and smiles and pats on the back and promotions

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        23. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          Would it be so fucking bad? Is it so fucking bad to just *want* that? To want a *taste* of it? They drank deeply of that well their whole damn lives and I can't even have a *drop*

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        24. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          Is it really a blessing to see the world more clearly, with fewer illusions? Is it "moral luck"? To have to live like this every damn day? The world with the focus and contrast turned up so you can see every goddamn wrinkle, crack and stain?

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        25. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          I dunno man One thing that hits hard about this show is that it's very, very much a retcon Nobody when they were creating MCU Wanda Maximoff thought "Oh she's a throwback fan-of-the-past tradwife type, she dreams of being June Cleaver"

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        26. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          Like they designed her to be the total opposite of that She rocks the lowkey punk look, she's a cool alternative radicalized anti-American Euro-teen Red leather jacket over a black dress with black fingerless gloves and whatnot Joined HYDRA

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        27. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          But that's why the reveal works so well, I think It's the repressed, achingly earnest little-girl version of herself that she's been trying to hide and built a wall around for years since the bombs fell Something she never showed anyone, not even her brother, until Vision

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        28. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          Like I absolutely headcanon that from the age of ten until the age of thirty Wanda would've angrily denied it if you accused her of ever having been a fan of black-and-white cheesy US dom-coms

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        29. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          Even when she's chilling in the Avengers compound whiling away the hours watching TV by herself she's switched to watching Malcolm in the Middle, which is much more subversive and less embarrassing than being a fan of Dick van Dyke It's something she's in denial about

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        30. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          I mean, isn't everyone? The 1950s American Dream is the most worn-out dunk target in, like, all of pop culture and academia It's cringe af to say you actually want that shit "I can't move to the suburbs, my soul would wither and die there", etc

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        31. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 10

          She doesn't admit it until she's completely broken down, eroded all the way to her exposed core, till she's lost absolutely everything real in her life and has nothing at all remaining but her dreams, her oldest dream, her last dream

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