/lit/ - Literature

>>9134581
>>9134991
I suppose I label them as "authoritarian" because they both lean so powerfully on the idea of the "Great Man." In all of them there is an element of the one man, or one woman, standing astride the cosmos and acting as savior. In TTGL, it's Simon. In Gunbuster, it's Noriko in Gunbuster. Someone, some single individual, who has the strength and the spirit and the force of will to carry the fates of all on their shoulders, and then they succeed in doing so, saving all by their singular actions.

Maybe it's not overtly political, but the idea of the hero above all does have an authoritarian ethos. In a truly democratic society, it seems to me that the hero would be the people. There wouldn't be anyone who stood above all the others. It seems to me that in a democracy there is no room for saviors.