opposite way; cartoons accurately told us how these powerful people are but we previously chose to take that as an exaggeration since our only exposure to them being highly manufactured tv. I have new idiom; Only the magic bullshit is fictional in cartoons, the villains are accurate.
i used to say growing up is a process of learning that Captain Planet is a documentary; the people ruining this planet really ARE one-dimensional cartoon villains, but honestly i nowadays think that the Eco-Villains are by and large LESS deranged than their real-life counterparts
the problem is that we're raised to understand that villains like those aren't "realistic," that there are more complex motives than pure destructive id in play
and now we have the likes of Trump and Musk and even Rowling on the stage, and we can see that if anything fiction undersells the threat
real life baffles and fiction is just using a realism that "feels" right. in film making gore is often unrealistic not just in the amount of blood- but like a normal person cant realistically know what a guys brain spiling on the dirt looks like; actual realism would be surreal to the audience
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- Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut (1962)
The human race appears to be getting stupider every year.
and now we have the likes of Trump and Musk and even Rowling on the stage, and we can see that if anything fiction undersells the threat