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sophiaserpentia) wrote2007-03-14 12:45 pm
sophiaserpentia) wrote2007-03-14 12:45 pm
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In listening to music and reading fiction and stuff, over the last couple of months i've started noticing a subtle kind of pattern. There's a kind of polarization in much of the fiction, music, and other kinds of creative material we consume, and i don't know how to articulate besides saying that some works speak very subtly from the point of view of domination-approval, while others (usually not so subtly, but sometimes so) assume the point of view of domination-resistance.
By "domination" i mean here not authoritarianism or the aneristic principle, so much as the assertion of will and privilege of one person over another on a direct or even personal level.
The bias is not always obvious, and is not quite the same as "authoritarian vs. anti-authoritarian." For example, the bias i detected in My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult's music is domination-approval. In contrast, the bias in Babylon 5, even though it is mostly told from a military point of view, is domination-resistance.
By "domination" i mean here not authoritarianism or the aneristic principle, so much as the assertion of will and privilege of one person over another on a direct or even personal level.
The bias is not always obvious, and is not quite the same as "authoritarian vs. anti-authoritarian." For example, the bias i detected in My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult's music is domination-approval. In contrast, the bias in Babylon 5, even though it is mostly told from a military point of view, is domination-resistance.