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Tbh I thought the video was kind of obnoxiously nonpolitical when talking about “modernist” film and repeating that stuff about how “postmodern” film just points to a bunch of problems with no ideas for solutions, reminded me of smug ascended liberal speak.
I think a video could have been made with the same basic argument that was way less smug and vague. It could have been “this is what makes Rick and Morty’s fandom so toxic” and at least it’d have focus and better examples.
Rick and Morty is a weird example, cause it feels like (with the framing the video uses) a postmodern reaction against metamodernism. Its whole shtick is building up apparent sincerity within an ironic absurdist setting and then tearing that sincerity down again in a wave of nihilism as the punchline, before promptly resetting the board to convince the audience (not necessarily the actual audience though, the imagined one you, the viewer, get to feel superior to) to try to kick the sincerity football again.
I’m reading what you’re saying, but even while I don’t particularly agree with the video’s premise and I don’t identify with “metamodernism,” Rick and Morty just seems so irony poisoned in its own premise that it “cures” the poisoning just to inflict more poisoning because that would be extra poisonous irony which is totally funnier and smarter for real guys. I’d rather just not run that race than try to keep up with Justin Roiland in a drug fueled sprint, with one of his hands busy jerking himself off about how subversive and smart he thinks he is while the other hand is creep texting children and then sending racial slurs their way if they turn down his advances. :libertarian-alert:
I think “metamodernism” is too shifty in its own positions to really stand for anything in particular, so that’s why I said “at least dunking on Rick and Morty’s fandom would be a solid premise with solid examples” compared to whatever the video was trying to do.
Tbh I thought the video was kind of obnoxiously nonpolitical when talking about “modernist” film and repeating that stuff about how “postmodern” film just points to a bunch of problems with no ideas for solutions, reminded me of smug ascended liberal speak.
I won’t argue with you there.
I think a video could have been made with the same basic argument that was way less smug and vague. It could have been “this is what makes Rick and Morty’s fandom so toxic” and at least it’d have focus and better examples.
Rick and Morty is a weird example, cause it feels like (with the framing the video uses) a postmodern reaction against metamodernism. Its whole shtick is building up apparent sincerity within an ironic absurdist setting and then tearing that sincerity down again in a wave of nihilism as the punchline, before promptly resetting the board to convince the audience (not necessarily the actual audience though, the imagined one you, the viewer, get to feel superior to) to try to kick the sincerity football again.
I’m reading what you’re saying, but even while I don’t particularly agree with the video’s premise and I don’t identify with “metamodernism,” Rick and Morty just seems so irony poisoned in its own premise that it “cures” the poisoning just to inflict more poisoning because that would be extra poisonous irony which is totally funnier and smarter for real guys. I’d rather just not run that race than try to keep up with Justin Roiland in a drug fueled sprint, with one of his hands busy jerking himself off about how subversive and smart he thinks he is while the other hand is creep texting children and then sending racial slurs their way if they turn down his advances. :libertarian-alert:
I think “metamodernism” is too shifty in its own positions to really stand for anything in particular, so that’s why I said “at least dunking on Rick and Morty’s fandom would be a solid premise with solid examples” compared to whatever the video was trying to do.