[ SECRET POST #2921 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2921 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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06. [ SPOILERS for Legend of Korra ]



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08. [ WARNING for rape ]



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09. [ WARNING for incest ]

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Comments

Re: Ideas you want to see in...

[feotakahari]

Not a plot, but a set of characters. There's this book called The Captive Mind that's all about how the Soviets would roll into a region and completely annihilate local art and culture, replacing it with their own self-glorifying style. It's got profiles of four artists who all wound up writing Communist propaganda, and I think they'd make a great basis for a group of villainous henchmen. You've got Delta, a playful clown with a sinister side, who joined up out of greed and hedonism; Alpha, grandiose and self-important, who believes in the righteousness of the cause; Gamma, a selfish failure, who wants the power to control others, and Beta, a broken former idealist, who knows what they're doing is wrong but thinks it's the only way to prevent future atrocities. (Just please find some way to keep Beta alive--the real Beta killed himself at twenty-eight years old, and I want him to at least get a happy ending in fiction.)

Re: Ideas you want to see in...

[(Anonymous)]

That's... not really quite what The Captive Mind is about. I mean, yes, it is about the price of totalitarianism on artistic and intellectual freedom, but it's not really a problem of localism or art glorifying the Soviets; the problem is the intellectual rigidity and conformity the system demands. It's a much more internal thing.

Re: Ideas you want to see in...

[feotakahari]

I always say the wrong thing when I try to explain what something's about, and then someone else tells me I've got it totally wrong and it's actually about something else entirely, and half the time we're actually talking about the same thing and I just phrased it really badly. I mean, we're both talking about how the Soviet Union was practically the Borg, right?

Edit: Please, please, please tell me this isn't going in the direction of "lessons from The Captive Mind that can be applied to our own society." Not unless you're a refugee from North Korea or something.

Re: Ideas you want to see in...

[(Anonymous)]

No no no nothing like that. What I mean is more that you make it sound like it's basically a problem of culturally imperialism - mean old Soviets not letting people do their own cultural art - when, at least on my reading, it was something much more insidious and distinctive and internal - the effects of the overweening Soviet bureaucratic control but also of the totalizing Soviet ideology. The point of it was that it was something that got inside your head and your actions - and could have done just as easily for someone in Russia proper.