I'm gonna be scrupulous and say Cormac McCarthy et al have explored the idea of "outlaws gone mad" w/o equating them to Natives
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
It is true that the idea of "going mad outside of civilization" has unfortunately always had echoes of denigrating "savages" though
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Since "civilization" always must be defined by naming existing cultures alongside it as "barbaric"
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I mean, I like Lovecraft stuff and it makes sense to me that if you spent enough time in deep, deep space you might... change.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Yeah, although I'd say the correct view isn't that one social context is better than another but that changing contexts is dangerous
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
The white guy lost in the woods becomes "savage" not bc the woods are inherently savage but bc HE doesn't think of the woods as civilization
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The danger of being a place where things "don't count", even a virtual place
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This is the natural antithesis of Mal's love of "freedom" and a frontier where you can escape social context and reinvent yourself
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Lots more people want that freedom to reinvent themselves negatively than positively -- social context is dangerous to remove
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That's the natural tension at the heart of Mal's worldview and the retcon of Serenity crumples that up and spits on it
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The Reavers are 100% the fault of the Alliance imposing TOO MUCH control and wouldn't exist otherwise, Mal is 100% right, checkmate SJWs
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