Mother 3 Is As Special As They Say It Is
Erudite critique, confrontation, and analysis of a theme in artistic creation can sometimes be dulled or even completely undercut depending on the circumstances through which that art is created. And in today’s day and age where artistic creation is often funneled through a heavily industrialized and commercial space, it is especially hard for the very mechanism of capitalism to receive genuine criticism when an unfortunate reality of the art being created is done so with the intention of acquiring said capital. As Joyce Messier in Disco Elysium said "Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who critique capital end up reinforcing it instead.” As an artistic idealist I cannot view cultural, philosophical and artistic texts in the same way as a “product” or good. Even just thinking of them in similar contexts feels absurdly icky to me. There is a massive difference between a transformative work of its medium like Cowboy Bebop (1998 anime series) and ...
