Aculem

joined 1 year ago
[–] Aculem@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure I have the time to be a dedicated mod right now, but I would absolutely check out the server!

[–] Aculem@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I would call Nolan an outright conservative, but there is a lot of state apologia and counter-revolutionary themes in The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises. There's multiple examples including the justification of surveillance for anti-terrorism purposes, stateless anarchy portrayed as monstrous via Bane and The Joker, Alfred justifying imperialist actions in Burma, the protagonist being a rich billionaire, a lot of dialogue that seems to suggest it's not the system that's evil, but the lack of regulation against corruption, so on and so forth.

You might say that a lot of what he seems to advocate for seems to be firmly liberal, but Liberalism is a conservative ideology if you're looking outside America's shortsighted left/right spectrum. I like Nolan's work, but I constantly see suppression of revolutionary ideology in his work. I don't think he hates progressivism, but I do think he's riding the center, which in America, means right-wing.

[–] Aculem@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh yeah, spent a good part of a year playing it a few years back. Even made a few mods for it. My girlfriend was always pretty interested in it so we recently just started playing it together.

[–] Aculem@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

There you go giving a fuck when it ain't your turn to give a fuck.