Anime as a whole is so ridden with complete crap that anything that's even remotely good will be considered art, even if it's the most depressing thing ever.

You are in a perpetual quest to find the new, the exciting. Emotionally volatile, you are known for sudden changes of opinion, of appreciation, and behavior. Following rules and established methods is difficult for you and the difficulties of higher education are usually quite daunting. Knowledge is best gained through an intimate association with ( Read more... )

Ohtori Academy is essentially a place for Anthy to create and judge various heroes. This may seem obvious due to the centrality of the Rose Bride duels, but this pattern runs much more deeply than that ( Read more... )

Gally/Alita looks up from her place on the cable and sees Tiphares looming half a kilometer away and decides to make them pay for Hugo's death. She senses the force field around the floating city and creates a plasma barrier around herself and allow here to penetrate it, kind of like how a virus surrounds itself in cellular membrane to let it enter ( Read more... )

Shinra Corporation, of course, represents capitalism in decay. The villages serviced by their reactors are losing their identities, the very economy is dependent on a propagandist "Rufus Effect," and their power plants look as if they are covered by a thin layer of mold. In a philosophical sense, they are a great nihilistic force, sinning against ( Read more... )

There are two forms of populism. The first desires to create utility for the majority, the second endeavors to promote the qualities that are perceived to be characteristic of the majority ( Read more... )

than to be entertained by something mediocre.

Compromise assumes that everybody is right. This is the opposite of what should be done; the default assumption should be that everybody is wrong, because people are dumb.

In a defense of Blaise Pascal from atheist hatred, the following quote was cited as an example of the poignancy of his religious thought ( Read more... )

The biggest obstacles in the way of the free flow of information, IMO, do not involve physical access to information, but ( Read more... )