/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>14236960
>their conservative way of thinking cannot last forever
Definitely. All ideologies come and pass with the state of the times, and modern perspectives on politics aren't exempt from this rule.

>How does the battle over Israel benefit mankind?
That doesn't factor into the equation.
Despite what some people may claim, nobody really cares about "mankind" or "humanity", as they are very vague and ill-defined concepts that nobody can truly relate with. No, people are more concerned with benefiting themselves, their family, their friends, or even their race/people, if they are forward-thinking enough. But as far as most are concerned, helping "mankind" has no meaning, unless it is used as a buzzword to look good in front of their peers.

At the end of the day, none of it really matters. It doesn't matter if someone is strongly nationalistic, idealistic, or anarchistic. No matter how strongly one idealistic individual pushes "more productive" prospects and convinces others to pursue these projects and not their own nationalistic ideas, none of it will matter in the end, because the inevitable death of the universe will completely nullify your efforts, if your legacy will stick around for that long anyways.

>>12843933
>Is there a reason moe romanticizes innocence and youth?

As far as I have seen, people interested in "moe" portrayals of characters feel a sense of regret and anguish that they didn't live out their "younger" years the way they wanted to live them out.

I mean, many of us are unattractive in many ways: fat, ugly, mean-spirited, mentally ill, etc, and we never had the chance to experience teenage attraction and infatuation at that age, and now that we are too old to ever have a glimpse that part of life.

So, in order to curb these feelings of intense regret, people try to fill the void by living vicariously through the lives of "moe" characters, and try to imagine having those strong teenage emotions themselves.

When I see myself, and realize that I have never had much experience with romance despite my age, and when I realize that other people my age have a lot of experience with these feelings, I feel alienated from my peers, knowing that they passed this "stage" of their lives over a decade ago, and I still haven't even begun to experience those feelings. I think that's why many of these people like the idea of innocence, because it makes themselves feel more comfortable with their lack of experience.

In other words, I (and I imagine those in similar positions to me) have missed the train to a healthy love life, and I will never be able to get on the train again. To make myself feel less shit, and to help curb the regret, I look at the lives of these characters to try to catch a glimpse of what my life would have been like back in my younger days, had I not royally fucked up.